The Fascist regime itself, whatever its negative features, probably contributed to that «passive revolution»
in another of the senses
in which Gramsci used the term,
in which important social
changes can go on even under reactionary and repressive regimes — the
gradual erosion of particularistic and traditional authority
structures and the development of more egalitarian social forms — though it may be
in the nature of the less effective Italian Fascist regime to have served more as a guardian for such
structures and less as a corrosive to them than
in the more efficient fascist regimes
in Germany and Japan.
«This study is one of the first to show that
gradual and subtle
changes in forest
structure and species composition, driven by climate
change — as well as invasive insects and pathogens that act on a fraction of tree species within a forest — can also affect water yield.»