Giolitti replaced Crispi’s Jacobin fervor with bureaucratic continuity in policy
Evidence
The attitude of the various social groups in the Mezzogiorno from 1919 to 1926 serves to reveal and to emphasise certain weaknesses of the obsessively unitarian approach of Crispi, and to emphasise certain corrections contributed to it by Giolitti. These were very few in reality, since Giolitti essentially kept to the furrow traced by Crispi. For the temperamental Jacobinism of Crispi, Giolitti substituted bureaucratic diligence and continuity; he kept up the “mirage of land” in colonial policy, but he also propped up that policy with a “defensive” military outlook, and with the premise that it was necessary to create the conditions of freedom of expansion for the future. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 450