Transformism organically absorbed revolutionary personnel into the Italian ruling class
Evidence
The phenomenon was called ‘transformism’, but it was not an isolated phenomenon; it was an organic process which, in the formation of the ruling class, replaced what in France had happened in the Revolution and under Napoleon, and in England under Cromwell. Indeed, even after 1876 the process continued, molecularly. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 2079
Categorization
Category: Factual Claims
- DEFINE: Defines ‘transformism’ with concrete Italian historical examples — a named concept in the hegemony toolkit.
Related
- Ruling classes absorb and neutralize subversive movements through transformism (similarity 0.87)
- Transformism absorbed opposition elites into the ruling bloc (similarity 0.84)
- A small Italian ruling group absorbed all political personnel from subversive mass movements (similarity 0.82)
- Gramsci applies passive revolution to the fascist regime itself (similarity 0.82)
- Defeated populism is absorbed hierarchically into the ruling order (similarity 0.79)
- Italian elites saw the factories occupation as a near-revolutionary moment that was not seized (similarity 0.79)
- Fascism originated in the petite and rural bourgeoisie then served capitalist class interests (similarity 0.78)