Abolishing parliamentary forms requires abolishing their individualist economic content

Evidence

It is obvious that it is impossible to abolish a ā€œpureā€ form, such as parliamentarism, without radically abolishing its content, individualism, and this in its precise meaning of ā€œindividual appropriationā€ of profit and of economic initiative for capitalist and individual profit. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 951

Categorization

  • DEFINE: Defines ā€˜individualism’ in its economic sense as individual appropriation of profit — a precise redefinition that matters for the toolkit.