Italy’s communal bourgeoisie failed to transcend the economic-corporate phase and form a national state

Evidence

The city, the point of departure for the earlier bourgeoisies and their networks of long-distance trade and productive organization, proved to be incapable of sustaining the economic recovery of those bourgeoisies situated where the merchant town had reached its highest development: northern Italy, western Germany, the Netherlands, and the Baltic. The Absolutist State, under the hegemony of western European aristocracies, brought forth a new bourgeoisie. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 177 (#contradicts, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Protectionism forged capitalist-class alliance while devastating the Italian peasantry.; A weak bourgeoisie explains why no revolutionary vanguard party formed in Italy; Italian bourgeois revolution aims were sacrificed to Piedmontese state ambitions (+1 more)

Related

• The Absolutist State, not the merchant town, created the modern bourgeoisie (similarity 0.87)
• A weak bourgeoisie explains why no revolutionary vanguard party formed in Italy (similarity 0.87)
• Sixteenth-century bourgeoisies were not lineal descendants of medieval ones (similarity 0.82)
• Merchant bourgeois wealth, not the poor, first eroded aristocratic dress codes. (similarity 0.82)
• Italy’s Renaissance bourgeoisie failed to create a national state while Northern Europe succeeded. (similarity 0.78)
• Italian communes failed to transcend the corporative phase into a modern state (similarity 0.78)
• A failed bourgeois revolution stems from economic weakness and historical timing (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• A weak bourgeoisie explains why no revolutionary vanguard party formed in Italy #corroborates (0.85)
• Italian bourgeois revolution aims were sacrificed to Piedmontese state ambitions #expands (0.80)
• The Absolutist State, not the merchant town, created the modern bourgeoisie #contradicts (0.75) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 177