Alliance-building is easier where no single majority presides.

Evidence

Among the subaltern groups, one will exercise or tend to exercise a certain hegemony through the mediation of a party; this must be established by studying the development of all the other parties too, in so far as they include elements of the hegemonic group or of the other subaltern groups which undergo such hegemony. β€” Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 418 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

  • XREF: connects to: Alliances flourish where every group is a minority; A single subaltern group can exercise hegemony over others via a party β€” Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 418; The movement operates as a coalition of the willing without formal membership counting β€” The Friends of Attention, Attensity!: A Manifesto of the…, 28 (+2 more)

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