Junior-officer class origins underpin Bonapartist Caesarism forms

Evidence

In a whole series of countries, therefore, military influence in national life means not only the influence and weight of the military in the technical sense, but the influence and weight of the social stratum from which the latter (especially the junior officers) mostly derives its origin. This series of observations is indispensable for any really profound analysis of the specific political form usually termed Caesarism or Bonapartism—to distinguish it from other forms in which the technical military element as such predominates, in conformations perhaps still more visible and exclusive. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 844

Categorization

• DEFINE: Distinguishes Caesarism/Bonapartism (the mobilization of a social stratum through the military) from forms where technical military power alone governs.