Caesarism emerges when two forces reach an organic equilibrium neither can win

Evidence

The generic schema of forces A and B in conflict with catastrophic prospects—i.e. with the prospect that neither A nor B will be victorious, in the struggle to constitute (or reconstitute) an organic equilibrium, from which Caesarism is born (can be born)—is precisely a generic hypothesis, a sociological schema (convenient for the art of politics). — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 856

Categorization

• DEFINE: Establishes Gramsci’s core definition of Caesarism as the product of a catastrophic deadlock between two forces, not merely a strongman’s ambition.