The post-1918 order parallels the post-Napoleonic era as a passive revolution

Evidence

Studies aimed at capturing the analogies between the period which followed the fall of Napoleon and that which followed the war of 1914-18. The analogies are only seen from two viewpoints: territorial division, and the more conspicuous and superficial one of the attempt to give a stable legal organisation to international relations (Holy Alliance and League of Nations). However, it would seem that the most important characteristic to examine is the one which has been called that of “passive revolution”—a problem whose existence is not manifest, since an external parallelism with the France of 1789-1815 is lacking. And yet, everybody recognises that the war of 1914-18 represents an historical break, in the sense that a whole series of questions which piled up individually before 1914 have precisely formed a “mound”, modifying the general structure of the previous process. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 552

Categorization

• DEFINE: Introduces the master concept of ‘passive revolution’ and situates it historically as the key lens for reading the post-1914-18 break.
• XREF: Connects forward to how modern Islamophobia scholars read state responses to postcolonial mobilization as containment or absorption. — connects to: The 1919-20 revolutionary wave was experienced as one transnational event — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order: How Economists…, 340