Ordine Nuovo located revolutionary development in the productive organism, not the state

Evidence

In the third place, Ordine Nuovo saw the factory councils and the territorial Soviets which would subsequently be based on them as the embryos of the future socialist state. And fourthly it claimed that: “The real development of the revolutionary process occurs below the surface, in the obscurity of the factory and in the obscurity of the consciousness of the numberless masses whom capitalism subjects to its laws”; “the revolution is proletarian and communist only in so far as it is a liberation of productive and proletarian forces”; “we, as Marxists, must strive to grasp the terms of the problem of power in the productive organism”. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 94

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the Ordine Nuovo program: factory councils and territorial soviets as embryos of the future socialist state, revolution unfolding ‘below the surface’ in the productive organism.
• XREF: This productive-organism framing is the seed of Gramsci’s later civil society/state distinction central to hegemony theory.