Bourgeoisie rule can hide behind the facade of old aristocratic classes
Evidence
The explanation given by Antonio Labriola of the fact that the Junkers and Kaiserism continued in power in Germany, despite the great capitalist development, adumbrates the correct explanation: the class relations created by industrial development, with the limits of bourgeois hegemony reached and the position of the progressive classes reversed, have induced the bourgeoisie not to struggle with all its strength against the old regime, but to allow a part of the latter’s facade to subsist, behind which it can disguise its own real domination. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 484
Categorization
Category: Causal Relationships
- XREF: This is the fusion/compromise mechanism of hegemony that connects forward to how postcolonial and minoritarian elites rule while preserving old power structures.