Class ascendancy cannot quietly mature within the regime it aims to replace

Evidence

Yet here we approach one of the supreme paradoxes of Gramsci’s thought, a dilemma to which he found no answer. For there is precisely a radical dissimilarity between the situation of the bourgeoisie under feudal or pre-bourgeois forms of State and that of the proletariat under bourgeois rule. In the former case, capitalist relations of production can develop within the feudal State, until at a certain point in time the “carapace” cracks. In the latter case, however, this is not so. It is quite impossible for socialist relations of production to develop “within” capitalism. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 382

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the exclusion/exposure logic in Hannah Arendt on statelessness and in the later Islamophobia module: a population cannot ‘ripen’ toward selfhood inside a structure that defines it as Other, only confront that structure. — connects to: An ossified revolutionary group can only be replaced, never renewed from within — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 536; A rising class abandons realistic art for heroic styles as it nears confrontation — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 745; Realism requires access to any rising class, not specifically capitalism — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 405 (+1 more)