A revolutionary government endures only if it unites a majority coalition.

Evidence

“This is impossible”, Lenin wrote, ”… because only a revolutionary dictatorship supported by the vast majority of the people can be at all durable… The Russian proletariat, however, is at present a minority of the population in Russia. It can become the great, overwhelming majority only if it combines with the mass of semi-proletarians, semi-proprietors, i.e. with the mass of the petty-bourgeois urban and rural poor. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 2173

Categorization

• XREF: Directly prefigures the ruling-class-must-lead-allied-groups logic central to the state-and-civil-society material and to how consent is manufactured rather than imposed — carries forward into the construction-of-the-‘Other’ toolkit. — connects to: An institutionalist view holds alliances survive only while states value their benefits. — Robert B. McCalla, NATO’s persistence after the cold war, 133; Revolutionary mass parties can fail insurrection by neglecting alliances with peasants — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 88; Revolutionary cadres divorced from the masses cannot sustain a revolution

Broader Connections

• Revolutionary mass parties can fail insurrection by neglecting alliances with peasants #exemplifies (0.85) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 88
• Revolutionary cadres divorced from the masses cannot sustain a revolution #expands (0.85)