Foreign troops curbing local revolution alienated the rural masses and doomed the Republic

Evidence

The work of an enlightened, “Jacobin” bourgeoisie, a large section of the city’s aristocracy rallied to it (e.g. Cuoco see note 11 on p. 59 ). The French troops, however, braked the revolutionary aims of the Neapolitan bourgeoisie, and prevented the measures to destroy feudalism which could have won the countryside. Cardinal Ruffo, with British support, raised the countryside against the town, and when the French were forced by military setbacks in the North to withdraw in March, the Republic’s days were numbered. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1980

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

• XREF: This is Gramsci’s core mechanism of passive revolution/revolution from above failing — connects forward to Islamophobia readings on how colonial powers co-opt and brake native reform movements.

Broader Connections

• Revolutionary cadres divorced from the masses cannot sustain a revolution #expands (0.95) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1439