Regimes are analyzed through their social base, not as interchangeable forms

Evidence

But whereas Bordiga saw fascism and social-democracy simply as two inter-changeable forms of bourgeois rule, rejected the notion that whether one form or the other happened to be adopted by Italian capitalism could be of any consequence to the P.C.I., and foresaw a direct replacement of the existing regime by the dictatorship of the proletariat, Gramsci’s conception was a less reductionist one. He had always analysed fascism in terms of its social base, and he saw its disintegration in terms of the detachment of sections of this base—above all the urban petite bourgeoisie. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 186

Categorization

Category: Definitional Content

• DEFINE: Rank-and-file examples of analyses built on web-structure semantics, i.e., something carried as a package of social/political facts that structures the terrain.
• XREF: Gramsci’s insistence on the social base of a regime—rather than treating forms of rule as interchangeable—echoes and would underwrite the later Islamophobia toolkit’s skepticism of reified category labels like ‘fascism’ or ‘anti-Muslim sentiment’ lifted from their class/economic terrain.

Related

• Gramsci analyzed fascism through its social base rather than abstract class form (similarity 0.92)
• Caesarism describes compromise regimes without equating fascism with capitalism (similarity 0.82)
• Fascism’s essence was disputed among revolutionaries in 1926 (similarity 0.81)
• Fascism originated in the petite and rural bourgeoisie then served capitalist class interests (similarity 0.80)
• Gramsci analyzed fascism as comparable to Bonapartism and New Deal interventionism (similarity 0.79)
• Bourgeoisie could grow within feudal states, but socialism cannot grow within capitalism (similarity 0.79)
• Gramsci came to see fascism as unifier of the ruling class, not just terror (similarity 0.79)
• Gramsci applies passive revolution to the fascist regime itself (similarity 0.78)
• Early communist analysts divided on whether fascism was novel or a bourgeois unity (similarity 0.78)