Abstractions are required to produce real social objects

Evidence

A calibre is likewise a complex of abstractions, but without calibration it is not possible to produce real objects—real objects which are social relations, and which implicitly embody ideas. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 368

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Abstraction, modern thought’s key power, operates by effacing the human face; Modern society abstracts persons just as pre-industrial cultures personified objects — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 2423; Constructing a people reveals representation as the primary terrain of social objectivity — Ernesto Laclau, On Populist Reason, 322 (+12 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Abstraction, modern thought’s key power, operates by effacing the human face; Modern society abstracts persons just as pre-industrial cultures personified objects — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 2423; Constructing a people reveals representation as the primary terrain of social objectivity — Ernesto Laclau, On Populist Reason, 322 (+12 more)

Broader Connections

• Social unity is felt through concrete relations rather than abstract awareness #complicates (0.82) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 169
• The actualist State-as-superior-entity theory reduces individuals to abstractions #complicates (0.76)
• Social relations can be analyzed purely as formal configurations #complicates (0.74) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 208