The state’s connivance and elite funding transformed fascism from marginal to mass.

Evidence

And the entire early development of fascism from the marginal phenomenon of 1919 to the mass phenomenon of 1920 was assisted by massive State connivance. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 107 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: A sabotaged general strike demoralized the proletariat and opened the way for fascism; State connivance drove fascism’s rise from marginal to mass scale — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 107

Related

• State connivance drove fascism’s rise from marginal to mass scale (similarity 0.94)
• A sabotaged general strike demoralized the proletariat and opened the way for fascism (similarity 0.92)
• Urbanist and ruralist cultural movements were two faces of fascist imperialism (similarity 0.82)
• Gramsci analyzed fascism as comparable to Bonapartism and New Deal interventionism (similarity 0.80)
• Fascism originated in the petite and rural bourgeoisie then served capitalist class interests (similarity 0.80)
• Gramsci applies passive revolution to the fascist regime itself (similarity 0.79)
• Fascism absorbed the bourgeoisie, Vatican, and industrial capital by 1924 (similarity 0.79)
• Fascism represented big capital directly seizing the state apparatus. (similarity 0.79)
• Gramsci analyzed fascism through its social base rather than abstract class form (similarity 0.78)
• Gramsci believed bourgeois state forces would migrate to the democratic opposition (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• State connivance drove fascism’s rise from marginal to mass scale #corroborates (0.95) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 107