Finance-capital rule can rest politically on petit-bourgeois and peasant rentiers

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

• XREF: The French rentier democracy example grounds a general point about how plutocracy needs a broad popular rentier base — relevant to later Gramscian analyses of the petite bourgeoisie’s political function.