Failed insurrections reveal class divisions within national liberation movements
Evidence
Arch-duke Maximilian of Austria was vice-regent of Lombardy from 1857 to 1859. The attempted anti-Austrian insurrection of 6 February 1853, involving workers and artisans inspired by Mazzini’s ideas, was a failure; the aristocrats did not back it. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1958
Categorization
Category: Factual Claims
- XREF: Connects to Gramsci’s broader analysis in this volume of bourgeois-aristocratic vs. popular class interests in Italian unification (Risorgimento), and later to how nationalism papers over class struggle.