A person’s social position shapes how they build coalitions.

Evidence

Positionality matters for ‘how grievances are identified, causes framed, adversaries understood, […], potential allies are approached and collaborations sustained (or not)’ (Beamish & Luebbers, 2009; Hull et al. — Silke Roth, Intersectionality and coalitions in…, 86

Categorization

• XREF: Speaks directly to the reading purpose of whether solidarity across difference can be achieved without suppressing internal heterogeneity — positionality is the mechanism that complicates coalition. — connects to: A movement’s social base determines the composition and slogans of its leadership. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 2173; A single subaltern group can exercise hegemony over others via a party — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 418; Class politics today operates by constructing working-class experience as the mediating core of coalitions — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 715

Broader Connections

• A movement’s social base determines the composition and slogans of its leadership. #expands (0.85) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 2173
• Class politics today operates by constructing working-class experience as the mediating core of coalitions #exemplifies (0.82) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 715
• A single subaltern group can exercise hegemony over others via a party #qualifies (0.78) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 418