Gramsci’s strategy rejected a post-fascist democratic phase as impossible and unstable

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

• XREF: The northern proletariat/southern peasantry alliance anticipates Gramsci’s fuller ‘Southern Question’ analysis; relevant to how the Islamophobia field treats center-periphery and regional class alliances.