Moralistic unitarianism suppressed objective evidence of regional conflict as intimidation.

Evidence

There was also a politico-moral factor which should not be forgotten; this was the campaign of intimidation waged against every assertion, however objective, that there existed motives for conflict between North and South. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 518

Categorization

• XREF: This ‘hysterical unitarianism’ — delegitimizing structural criticism as disloyalty — parallels later analyses of how appeals to national unity police dissent over internal inequality.