A full party develops into an integral state and world-conception

Evidence

In the modern world, a party is such— integrally, and not, as happens, a fraction of a larger party—when it is conceived, organised and led in ways and in forms such that it will develop integrally into a State (an integral State, and not into a government technically understood) and into a conception of the world. The development of the party into a State reacts upon the party and requires of it a continuous reorganisation and development, just as the development of the party and State into a conception of the world, i.e. into a total and molecular (individual) transformation of ways of thinking and acting, reacts upon the State and the party, compelling them to reorganise continually and confronting them with new and original problems to solve. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 994

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the integral party as one that develops into both a full State (not mere government) and a total moral-intellectual world-conception transforming individual thinking molecularly.
• QUESTION: Gramsci’s ‘total and molecular transformation of ways of thinking’ is worth chasing — how does this prefigure later work on racialized subjectivity formation?