Self-government succeeds where the landed class never fought its population
Evidence
It is thus understandable that self-government has only been possible in England, where the class of landowners, in addition to its condition of economic independence, had never been in savage conflict with the population (as happened in France) and had not had great corporate military traditions (as in Germany), with the separateness and the authoritarian attitude which derive from these. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 2204
Categorization
- XREF: Class structure and historical trajectory, not national character, explain institutional difference — a mechanism the Islamophobia readings reuse for state formation. — connects to: Failing to integrate masses into the state produces a stunted, dependent ruling class