and the objective of national integration. From this primary opposition the anti-Venizelist ideology crystallized.
More specifically, the term concerns the reaction and the resistance of the 'state' bourgeois class that ruled in the previous century, which, with the monarchy, controlled the state, versus the entrepreneurial bourgeois class, which, favoured by the economic changes of the end of the nineteenth century, was claiming its political voice and pushing the former "oligarchy" into the background. Other social classes rallied around Constantine, the common and binding link of anti-Venizelists, against Venizelos.
G. Th. Mavrogordatos observes that especially in the period of the Schism of 1915-17, it appeared to have expressed a specific, anti-liberal programme, which practically entailed the establishment of a traditional, militarist, bureaucratic but monarchical state Monarchy, that opposed the parliamentary tradition of bourgeois elements heading this bloc.
At all events, anti-Venizelism is nothing but the reaction of traditional pre-capitalist elements who are intimidated by the attempted capitalist transformation.