Spontaneous mass working-class revolt drives previously apolitical middle strata toward reaction.

Evidence

In other words, the “spontaneous” activity of the Italian working class and peasantry in 1919 20 provoked a back lash among the traditionally “apolitical” petit-bourgeois strata. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 2276

Categorization

• XREF: Directly feeds the hegemony toolkit: consent is withdrawn by subaltern spontaneity, and the petty bourgeoisie is the swing stratum that restores ruling-class consent — a mechanism the Islamophobia readings assume when they describe moral panics over ‘immodest’ dress or Muslim visibility.
• DEFINE: ‘Apolitical’ is a precise term of art here, not an insult: a stratum that abstains from party contest but can be swung either way, so its default alignment counts as a political fact.