Turin’s strikes escalated from economic to political insurrection by 1917

Evidence

The key stages in this trajectory were the general strike of June 1914, following the bloody repression of an anti-war demonstration at Ancona; the huge anti-war demonstrations and general strike of May 1915; and above all the insurrection of August 1917. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 59

Categorization

• XREF: The trajectory from economic struggle to political insurrection is the empirical template for Gramsci’s later distinction between economic-corporate and political-hegemonic phases of class consciousness. — connects to: Turin workers staged a five-day armed insurrection in August 1917 — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order: How Economists…, 1673

Related

• Turin workers staged a five-day armed insurrection in August 1917 (similarity 0.88)
• Turin’s strikes convinced Gramsci workers could ally with southern peasants (similarity 0.81)
• Turin’s textile women workers led the 1917 wave of industrial struggles (similarity 0.80)
• Spontaneous insurrection outpaced organized socialist leadership in Turin 1917 (similarity 0.78)