A party becomes historically necessary when conditions for its State power are already forming
Evidence
When does a party become historically necessary? When the conditions for its “triumph”, for its inevitable progress to State power, are at least in the process of formation, and allow their future evolution—all things going normally—to be foreseen. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 675
Categorization
- DEFINE: Establishes Gramsci’s criterion for ‘historical necessity’ of a political party as a predictable trajectory toward State power.
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 675