Landlord allies pushed Italian capital toward outright working-class repression

Evidence

Gramsci’s argument here is that the North Italian capitalists might have preferred to continue with Giolitti’s strategy of alliance with the reformist working-class leaders after 1920, but that they were “led” by their landlord allies to switch to a policy of total repression of the organized working class. (It is true that “agrarian fascism” did precede urban repression.) “Absolute” hegemony within the ruling-class bloc, however, remained of course with the urban bourgeoisie. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 2246

Categorization

• DEFINE: Illustrates how “absolute hegemony” within a ruling bloc can remain with the urban bourgeoisie even when it yields on repression policy.
• XREF: connects to: Fascist Italy and liberal Britain both paired market coercion with state repression of labor — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order: How Economists…, 1519

Related

• Fascism originated in the petite and rural bourgeoisie then served capitalist class interests (similarity 0.79)
• Fascist Italy and liberal Britain both paired market coercion with state repression of labor (similarity 0.79)
• For the PCI Left, fascist repression merely confirmed the inevitability of revolution (similarity 0.78)