An international class must nationalise itself to lead nationally-rooted social strata

Evidence

A class that is international in character has— in as much as it guides social strata which are narrowly national (intellectuals), and indeed frequently even less than national: particularistic and municipalistic (the peasants)—to “nationalise” itself in a certain sense. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 908

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies why even an international class like the proletariat must take on national form to exercise hegemony.
• XREF: Connects to how postcolonial and Islamophobia scholarship treats universalist movements (e.g. pan-Islamism, socialism) having to articulate through national/particular identity. — connects to: A newly hegemonic subaltern group must build a new intellectual and moral order; Nationalism proved stronger than the class struggle in the modern world — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 362; Nation and national interest mask class by uniting individual subjects (+3 more)
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 908

Broader Connections

• Nationalism proved stronger than the class struggle in the modern world #corroborates (0.85) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 362
• The SYL nationalized politics by reversing Italian colonial clan-based social engineering #exemplifies (0.82)
• Nation and national interest mask class by uniting individual subjects #expands (0.80)
• Nationalism is the most legitimate value in modern politics #corroborates (0.78) — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 32
• Generic nationalist slogans can mask a bloc’s concrete class interests #qualifies (0.75)