Southern autonomy campaigns voiced latent popular sentiment suppressed by unitarianism

Evidence

For it would be too ingenuous to think that these campaigns were entirely suspended in mid-air, in other words not related in some way to currents of public opinion and to states of mind which had remained subterranean, latent, potential as a result of the atmosphere of intimidation created by obsessive unitarianism. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 451

Categorization

• XREF: Illustrates Gramsci’s method of reading elite campaigns as expressions of subterranean popular currents — same analytic move as his hegemony concept where ruling ideas voice subaltern sentiments.