US Prohibition failed due to resistance from marginal backward forces

Evidence

Prohibition, which in the United States was a necessary condition for developing a new type of worker suitable to “Fordised” industry, has failed as a result of the opposition of marginal and still backward forces and certainly not because of the opposition of either the industrialists or the workers (etc.). — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1032

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth chasing: the causal link between alcohol prohibition and forging a Fordist-type worker is asserted but idiosyncratic — how did Gramsci ground this?
• XREF: connects to: Total bans like Prohibition fail without corresponding enforcement capacity — Lawrence M. Friedman and Grant M. Hayden, American Law: An Introduction, 820; Organized crime predated and outlived Prohibition, which did not create it — Lawrence M. Friedman, A History of American Law, 4267