Finance capital rule can rest on a petit-bourgeois democratic base

Evidence

That a State can exist politically based simultaneously on the plutocracy and on the “ordinary folk” is not in any case entirely contradictory, as is proved by the example of France, where the rule of finance capital could not be explained without the political base of a democracy of petit-bourgeois and peasant rentiers. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1156

Categorization

Category: Factual Claims

• XREF: The Gramsci concept that a state’s class base and its legitimation base can diverge carries into how exclusionary states claim popular mandate.

Related

• A state can politically rest on plutocracy and ordinary savers at once. (similarity 0.89)