State offers of co-partnership bait reformist labor leaders into ending occupations.

Evidence

Then, there was no difficulty in reaching a compromise, by means of an offer of industrial co-partnership which was to be echoed with equal success by another threatened bourgeois politician forty-eight years later in France. Even the term “participation” used so skilfully by De Gaulle in 1968 was used before him by Giolitti, although the latter also spoke of “trade-union control”. At all events, the bait was sufficient for the reformist leadership of the C.G.L., which was only waiting to be hooked and brought to land; a compromise was reached, and the factory occupations were called off. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 105

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘participation’ bait echoes into Foucault’s later analysis of ‘incorporation’ as a mode of power that neutralizes resistance by absorbing it.
• SEED: Sketch: the long genealogy of ‘participation’ as a strategy of pacification, from Giolitti 1920 through De Gaulle 1968 to modern corporate wokeness.