Gramsci believed bourgeois state forces would migrate to the democratic opposition

Evidence

At a Central Committee meeting in mid-July, Scoccimarro argued that there were two possible outcomes to the crisis; either the most intransigent wing of fascism would take over and install a yet more dictatorial regime, or there would be an agreement between the fascists and the opposition parties. Gramsci agreed with this assessment, and stressed that fascism could not possibly be overthrown except by mass struggle. … He described the Aventine opposition as “semi-fascist”. Underlying these positions was the belief that fascism was disintegrating, and that the real forces of the bourgeois State would pass over to the opposition—which was therefore the main danger. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 188

Categorization

• XREF: The claim that state forces migrate to the opposition anticipates Gramsci’s later hegemony theory about how ruling ideas are carried by non-ruling agents.