Italian party convergence under Depretis erased substantive Left-Right differences until socialism

Evidence

I have highlighted the similarities between the early U.S. penitentiary—with its aspirations toward individual rehabilitation—and the repressive supermaxes of our era as a reminder of the mutability of history. What was once regarded as progressive and even revolutionary represents today the marriage of technological superiority and political backwardness. No one—not even the most ardent defenders of the supermax—would try to argue today that absolute segregation, including sensory deprivation, is restorative and healing. The prevailing justification for the supermax is that the horrors it creates are the perfect complement for the horrifying personalities deemed the worst of the worst by the prison system. In other words, there is no pretense that rights are respected, there is no concern for the individual, there is no sense that men and women incarcerated in super maxes deserve anything approaching respect and comfort. — Davis, Angela Y, Are Prisons Obsolete, 130 (#responds-to, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: An unresolved party-versus-union divide left the Italian radical movement internally dual; Conflicting war-era pressures produced centrist ‘maximalism’ in Italian socialism; What was progressive in one era can become politically backward in another — Davis, Angela Y, Are Prisons Obsolete, 130 (+1 more)

Related

• What was progressive in one era can become politically backward in another (similarity 0.81)
• Italian parliamentary parties collapsed into personal cliques via trasformismo (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Transformism organically absorbed revolutionary personnel into the Italian ruling class #expands (0.88)
• An unresolved party-versus-union divide left the Italian radical movement internally dual #complicates (0.75)
• Conflicting war-era pressures produced centrist ‘maximalism’ in Italian socialism #expands (0.72)
• What was progressive in one era can become politically backward in another #responds-to (0.72) — Davis, Angela Y, Are Prisons Obsolete, 130