Internal peasant stratification does not threaten the worker-peasant alliance.
Evidence
In particular, he wrote: “It is inevitable that in the mass of the peasantry there should appear differences, and that rich and middle peasants should arise; but the very fact that the former will always be a small minority means that their interests will clash with those of the mass of poor peasants and wage-earners. Their political influence will not therefore become dangerous, since the alliance between the poor peasants and the workers will be reinforced by these very developments.” — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 218
Categorization
Category: Causal Relationships
Related
- Turin’s strikes convinced Gramsci workers could ally with southern peasants (similarity 0.80)
- Peasant political autonomy varies inversely with landowner organized strength (similarity 0.79)
- A revolutionary class needs a peasant base and agrarian program to win (similarity 0.79)
- Gramsci’s strategy rejected a post-fascist democratic phase as impossible and unstable (similarity 0.78)