Gramsci applies passive revolution to the fascist regime itself

Evidence

On the other hand, Gramsci makes use of the notion of “passive revolution” to confront certain of the central problems of revolutionary analysis and strategy. In the two final passages in this section, in which he comments on Croce’s historiography and also on his contemporary role, and again in the section entitled “Americanism and Fordism” below, Gramsci relates the concept of passive revolution to the Italian fascist regime. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 380

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

• XREF: Gramsci’s reading of fascism as a passive revolution parallels how critics read modern disciplinary regimes as controlling change from above.

Related

• Gramsci analyzed fascism as comparable to Bonapartism and New Deal interventionism (similarity 0.84)
• Passive revolutions suppress some contradictions only to spawn new ones (similarity 0.84)
• Transformism organically absorbed revolutionary personnel into the Italian ruling class (similarity 0.82)
• Gramsci’s ‘passive revolution’ concept remained internally ambiguous and unstable (similarity 0.82)
• Caesarism describes compromise regimes without equating fascism with capitalism (similarity 0.81)
• Fascism’s essence was disputed among revolutionaries in 1926 (similarity 0.81)
• Gramsci’s prison analysis of fascism offers the best analogy for postmodern transformation (similarity 0.81)
• Gramsci analyzed fascism through its social base rather than abstract class form (similarity 0.81)
• Gramsci read Americanism as a symptom of a major historical shift in production relations. (similarity 0.80)
• Ruling classes absorb and neutralize subversive movements through transformism (similarity 0.80)
• Gramsci’s 1926 theses rejected any stable post-fascist democratic phase (similarity 0.79)
• Passive-revolution ideology reinforces hegemony by manufacturing expectation and hope (similarity 0.79)
• Gramsci believed bourgeois state forces would migrate to the democratic opposition (similarity 0.79)
• Gramsci came to see fascism as unifier of the ruling class, not just terror (similarity 0.79)
• Passive revolution denotes either revolution without masses or molecular hidden change (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Transformism organically absorbed revolutionary personnel into the Italian ruling class #complicates (0.72) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 2079