Gramsci analyzed fascism as comparable to Bonapartism and New Deal interventionism

Evidence

Viewing the latter as a transitional, compromise form comparable in some ways to the rule of Napoleon III, he asks a series of questions. What modification in the fundamental balance of social forces is taking place beneath the surface of fascism? How is Croce organising the long-term “consent” to bourgeois rule? What is the significance of the forms of State intervention in the economy which were common to New Deal America and. to Fascist Italy? What are the fundamental economic contradictions under Fascism, and how will these be expressed, politically? How can the working class develop and retain some degree of class organisation and consciousness even under the corporate State? — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 381

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

• XREF: The fascism-as-Bonapartism comparison is a classic frame the reader can carry into necropolitics readings about how states absorb dissent.

Related

• Gramsci applies passive revolution to the fascist regime itself (similarity 0.84)
• Caesarism describes compromise regimes without equating fascism with capitalism (similarity 0.84)
• Gramsci analyzed fascism through its social base rather than abstract class form (similarity 0.81)
• State connivance drove fascism’s rise from marginal to mass scale (similarity 0.81)
• The state’s connivance and elite funding transformed fascism from marginal to mass. (similarity 0.80)
• Gramsci believed bourgeois state forces would migrate to the democratic opposition (similarity 0.80)
• Gramsci’s 1926 theses rejected any stable post-fascist democratic phase (similarity 0.80)
• Fascism’s essence was disputed among revolutionaries in 1926 (similarity 0.80)
• The PCI’s founding policy treated fascism as secondary to social democracy within bourgeois rule (similarity 0.80)
• The early PCI leadership treated fascism as secondary to the social-democratic threat (similarity 0.79)
• Regimes are analyzed through their social base, not as interchangeable forms (similarity 0.79)
• Fascism represented big capital directly seizing the state apparatus. (similarity 0.79)
• Gramsci’s imprisonment by fascism shaped his theory of the capitalist state (similarity 0.79)
• A sabotaged general strike demoralized the proletariat and opened the way for fascism (similarity 0.79)
• Corporatism predates Fascism and was co-opted by Mussolini (similarity 0.79)