Northern urban forces subordinated Southern urban leadership within national unity

Evidence

The urban forces are socially homogeneous, hence must occupy positions of perfect equality. That was theoretically true, but historically the question posed itself differently: the urban forces of the North were clearly at the head of their national sector, while for the urban forces of the South that was not true, at least not to the same extent. The urban forces of the North had therefore to persuade those of the South that their directive function should be limited to ensuring the “leadership” of North over South in a general relation of city to countryside. In other words, the directive function of the Southern urban forces could not be other than a subordinate moment of the vaster directive function of the North. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 532

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

Related

• Southern urban forces derived strength from representing Northern urban prestige (similarity 0.92)
• National unity depended on cohesion among all urban forces (similarity 0.87)
• Pre-capitalist cities sustain an ideological unity against the countryside (similarity 0.81)