Turin’s strikes convinced Gramsci workers could ally with southern peasants

Evidence

These struggles were the background to Gramsci’s first years in Turin. They won him from his youthful Southernism, demonstrating that the workers were the real enemy of the Northern industrialists, despite the collaborationism of their reformist leaders, and that they were thus the potential ally and leader of the peasant masses of the South. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 59

Categorization

• XREF: This worker-peasant alliance thesis is the structural forebear of Gramsci’s later analysis of how subaltern groups must build blocs — a scaffold for understanding his hegemony as alliance-building rather than mere domination. — connects to: Gramsci saw northern industrial workers’ revolution as ending the colonization of southern Italy — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order: How Economists…, 1678

Related

• Gramsci saw northern industrial workers’ revolution as ending the colonization of southern Italy (similarity 0.91)
• Turin’s militant proletariat proved a natural class ally for Southern peasants (similarity 0.89)
• Industrial class politics displaced but did not erase Gramsci’s regional-peasant concerns (similarity 0.85)
• Gramsci’s worker-peasant alliance strategy originated in the Southern Question (similarity 0.82)
• Gramsci’s strategy rejected a post-fascist democratic phase as impossible and unstable (similarity 0.81)
• Turin’s strikes escalated from economic to political insurrection by 1917 (similarity 0.81)
• Dual power in the factories ended through isolation, not armed force (similarity 0.80)
• Turin’s L’Ordine nuovo was capitalism’s most explicit postwar antagonist (similarity 0.79)
• The Italian left never resolved the party-union relation before the factory occupations. (similarity 0.79)
• Turin professors first connected Gramsci to socialist thought. (similarity 0.79)
• Gramsci’s 1926 theses rejected any stable post-fascist democratic phase (similarity 0.79)
• Turin workers staged a five-day armed insurrection in August 1917 (similarity 0.78)
• Workers championed industrial modernity before industrialists co-opted the movement (similarity 0.78)
• Turin’s wartime industrialization transformed it into Europe’s leading FIAT production center (similarity 0.78)