A party’s history is inseparable from the whole society and state around it

Evidence

The history of a party, in other words, can only be the history of a particular social group. But this group is not isolated; it has friends, kindred groups, opponents, enemies. The history of any given party can only emerge from the complex portrayal of the totality of society and State (often with international ramifications too). Hence it may be said that to write the history of a party means nothing less than to write the general history of a country from a monographic viewpoint, in order to highlight a particular aspect of it. A party will have had greater or less significance and weight precisely to the extent to which its particular activity has been more or less decisive in determining a country’s history. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 671

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Gramsci’s broader organic-intellectual/ hegemony framework the reader is building toward for the Islamophobia toolkit — the party as expression of a social group reappears in how religious or nationalist movements express class blocs. — connects to: Legal history is inseparable from the full history of society — Lawrence M. Friedman, A History of American Law, 4409; Without an established record, a party’s past largely shapes its reputation. — Anna M. Grzymala-Busse, Redeeming The Communist Past: The…, 73