Assumed collective wills require reconcentration rather than creation from scratch.

Evidence

Its underlying assumption will be that a collective will, already in existence, has become nerveless and dispersed, has suffered a collapse which is dangerous and threatening but not definitive and catastrophic, and that it is necessary to reconcentrate and reinforce it—rather than that a new collective will must be created from scratch, to be directed towards goals which are concrete and rational, but whose concreteness and rationality have not yet been put to the critical test by a real and universally known historical experience. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 607

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Subordination can create a group rather than express one already existing. — Georg Simmel, The Sociology of Georg Simmel, 5099; Collective historical action requires a shared cultural conception welding dispersed wills into one aim — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1251; Power generates the will it seems to express rather than serving a preexisting one. — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 618 (+3 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Subordination can create a group rather than express one already existing. — Georg Simmel, The Sociology of Georg Simmel, 5099; Collective historical action requires a shared cultural conception welding dispersed wills into one aim — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1251; Power generates the will it seems to express rather than serving a preexisting one. — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 618 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Subordination can create a group rather than express one already existing. #complicates (0.78) — Georg Simmel, The Sociology of Georg Simmel, 5099
• Power generates the will it seems to express rather than serving a preexisting one. #complicates (0.75) — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 618
• Power constitutes identities rather than acting between pre-formed ones. #complicates (0.74) — Chantal Mouffe, The Democratic Paradox, 97