International power relations shape each nation’s internal class-political development

Evidence

These variations in the actual process whereby the same historical development manifests itself in different countries have to be related not only to the differing combinations of internal relations within the different nations, but also to the differing international relations (international relations are usually underestimated in this kind of research). The Jacobin spirit, audacious, dauntless, is certainly related to the hegemony exercised for so long by France in Europe, as well as to the existence of an urban centre like Paris and to the centralisation attained in France thanks to the absolute monarchy. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 486

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth chasing the claim that international relations are underestimated in the comparative history of national bourgeois revolutions — how would Gramsci’s own world-systems framing look today?
• XREF: connects to: International instability can unify factions within a nation while internal instability divides them; Nationalism’s political role depends on the class configuration of its power bloc — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Nations, Classes, Literatures, 21; National historical variations depend partly on international relations (+6 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: International instability can unify factions within a nation while internal instability divides them; Nationalism’s political role depends on the class configuration of its power bloc — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Nations, Classes, Literatures, 21; National historical variations depend partly on international relations (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• Repudiating Marxism reframed global power as a West-non-West relation of nations rather than classes #complicates (0.75) — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 70
• An international class must nationalise itself to lead nationally-rooted social strata #complicates (0.72) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 908
• Cultural kinship explains the peaceful Britain-to-America power transition #complicates (0.72)