Gramsci’s 1926 theses rejected any stable post-fascist democratic phase

Evidence

The theses went on to formulate the concept of an alliance between the northern proletariat and the southern peasantry, and to define the anti-fascist opposition forces as so many links in a chain of reaction stretching from fascism to the P.S.I. The idea that any post-fascist democratic phase was possible was rejected; any transitional phase would be brief and unstable, and lead quickly to the outbreak of civil war. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 209

Categorization

Category: Factual Claims

• XREF: The rejection of a democratic transitional phase and the ‘chain of reaction’ framing prefigure the later prison-notebooks analysis of passive revolution and the absence of an autonomous democratic-bourgeois moment in Italy.

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