Fascism absorbed the bourgeoisie, Vatican, and industrial capital by 1924

Evidence

Fascism had succeeded in absorbing broad strata of the bourgeoisie and petite bourgeoisie behind its electoral list, and by now had won the support of the Vatican (provoking a split in the Popular Party—see note 14 on p. 62 ); it was backed by the decisive centres of financial and industrial capital. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 158

Categorization

• XREF: This concrete historical case of how a mass movement absorbs bourgeois strata is the empirical ground Gramsci later theorizes as hegemony and passive revolution — useful for the Islamophobia toolkit’s ‘common sense’ and ‘absorption of the Other’ concepts. — connects to: Fascism completed a three-stage merger of private power with public organization — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 973