Urban-rural relations drive the fundamental motor forces of national history

Evidence

The relation between city and countryside is the necessary starting-point for the study of the fundamental motor forces of Italian history, and of the programmatic points in the light of which the Action Party’s policies during the Risorgimento should be considered and judged. Schematically, one might have this picture: 1. the Northern urban force; 2. the Southern rural force; 3. the Northern-Central rural force; 4. the rural force of Sicily; 5. that of Sardinia. The first of these forces retains its function of “locomotive” in any case; what is needed, therefore, is an examination of the various “most advantageous” combinations for building a “train” to move forward through history as fast as possible. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 530

Categorization

• DEFINE: Gramsci’s schema of regional social forces as the analytical frame for national unity, later the basis of the ‘southern question.’
• XREF: connects to: Nationalist landscapes mobilize through the countryside as much as the city; Regional city-countryside relations shape national political party programmes — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 513; Italian history is driven by the city-countryside relation as its fundamental motor force (+8 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Nationalist landscapes mobilize through the countryside as much as the city; Regional city-countryside relations shape national political party programmes — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 513; Italian history is driven by the city-countryside relation as its fundamental motor force (+8 more)

Broader Connections

• Italian history is driven by the city-countryside relation as its fundamental motor force #exemplifies (0.96)
• Nationalist sentiment can be represented through the countryside as much as the city #complicates (0.75) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2296
• Peasant and intellectual movements reinforce each other dialectically #complicates (0.72) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 463
• Productive forces form the measurable skeleton of historical change #complicates (0.71) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1648