A leading class must represent future needs beyond its present members

Evidence

The Jacobins, consequently, were the only party of the revolution in progress, in as much as they not only represented the immediate needs and aspirations of the actual physical individuals who constituted the French bourgeoisie, but they also represented the revolutionary movement as a whole, as an integral historical development. For they represented future needs as well, and, once again, not only the needs of those particular physical individuals, but also of all the national groups which had to be assimilated to the existing fundamental group. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 474

Categorization

• XREF: This is Gramsci’s core move distinguishing a merely corporate-economistic class from a genuine hegemonic class — connects directly to how the Islamophobia literature frames dominant-group interests being generalized as universal national interests.