French Jacobinism presupposed Physiocrat culture’s economic defense of peasant proprietors

Evidence

That Machiavelli should only have been able to express his programme and his tendency to relate city to countryside in military terms is understandable if one reflects that French Jacobinism would be inexplicable without the presupposition of Physiocrat culture, with its demonstration of the economic and social importance of the peasant proprietor. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 649

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth chasing: Gramsci treats Physiocrat culture as a hidden precondition for Jacobinism — a claim about how economic doctrine undergirds political revolution that could apply to Islamophobic discourse’s own unacknowledged presuppositions.