Italy’s mixed modes of production make Gramsci’s analysis apt for colonial societies.

Evidence

This raises the question of how the contradictions of the Italian social formation are articulated through different modes of production (capitalist and feudal), and through class alliances which combine elements from different social orders. The problem of the state, and the question of strategic alliances between the industrial proletariat and the peasantry, the “play” of traditional and advanced ideologies, and the difficulties these provide in the formation of a “national-popular will” all make his analysis of Italy specially relevant to colonial societies. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 627

Categorization

• SEED: Seed for an essay contrasting classic Marxism’s two-class model with Gramsci’s multi-mode, alliance-based analysis of uneven societies — applied to colonial economies.