Italian unification repressed peasant insurrections against landowners

Evidence

Only after February 1853 did Mazzini begin to make the occasional allusion of a substantially democratic kind (see his Correspondence for the period), but he was not capable of a decisive radicalisation of his abstract programme. The political conduct of the Garibaldini in Sicily in 1860 should be studied—a political conduct which was dictated by Crispi: the peasant movements of insurrection against the barons were crushed pitilessly, and the anti-peasant National Guard was created. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 537

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to later postcolonial readings of nationalism where national liberation movements suppress internal class enemies — parallel to the ‘national question versus social question’ dynamics in Islamophobia literature about nationalism as a ruling-class project. — connects to: Protectionism forged capitalist-class alliance while devastating the Italian peasantry.; Sicilian peasant leagues demanded land redistribution and were brutally crushed; Land reform in Sicily dramatically expanded landowners while shrinking available protection (+3 more)
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 537

Broader Connections

• Sicilian peasant leagues demanded land redistribution and were brutally crushed #corroborates (0.92)
• Bourgeois landed property recast peasant customary rights as theft requiring punishment #expands (0.78) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 141
• Land reform in Sicily dramatically expanded landowners while shrinking available protection #qualifies (0.75)
• Italian bourgeois revolution aims were sacrificed to Piedmontese state ambitions #complicates (0.72)