Industrial class politics displaced but did not erase Gramsci’s regional-peasant concerns

Evidence

Experience of the working-class movement in Turin was to lead Gramsci to abandon his attachment to nationalism as such, but he never lost the concern, imparted to him in these early years, with peasant problems and the complex dialectic of class and regional factors. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 40

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘class and regional factors’ dialectic carries forward into how later theory reads race, nation, religion, and class together rather than in isolation. — connects to: Gramsci saw northern industrial workers’ revolution as ending the colonization of southern Italy — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order: How Economists…, 1678