Class consciousness shapes the gestalt of thought, not its details

Evidence

In the “most spontaneous” movement it is simply the case that the elements of “conscious leadership” cannot be checked, have left no reliable document. It may be said that spontaneity is therefore characteristic of the “history of the subaltern classes”, and indeed of their most marginal and peripheral elements; these have not achieved any consciousness of the class “for itself”, and consequently it never occurs to them that their history might have some possible importance, that there might be some value in leaving documentary evidence of it. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 803 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Class consciousness operates as an internal map locating each individual relative to other classes — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 760; One’s class origins enable unique insight while also limiting what the mind can see; Spontaneity marks subaltern classes that lack class-for-itself consciousness — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 803 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• One’s class origins enable unique insight while also limiting what the mind can see #expands (0.75)
• Spontaneity marks subaltern classes that lack class-for-itself consciousness #expands (0.70) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 803