Gramsci saw northern industrial workers’ revolution as ending the colonization of southern Italy

Evidence

According to Gramsci, the proletarian revolution would solve the pernicious “southern question,” as the industrial workers would break the chains of “capitalist slavery” and eliminate at once the colonization of the south of Italy by the northern bourgeoisie. — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 1678

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Gramsci’s southern question as a regional class structure, parallel to debates on core-periphery exploitation in world-systems analysis. — connects to: Gramsci’s worker-peasant alliance strategy originated in the Southern Question — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 153; Turin’s strikes convinced Gramsci workers could ally with southern peasants; Industrial class politics displaced but did not erase Gramsci’s regional-peasant concerns — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 40

Broader Connections

• Gramsci’s worker-peasant alliance strategy originated in the Southern Question #corroborates (0.90) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 153
• Turin’s strikes convinced Gramsci workers could ally with southern peasants #corroborates (0.82)
• Industrial class politics displaced but did not erase Gramsci’s regional-peasant concerns #expands (0.75) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 40