Collective association multiplies individual power to achieve radical change

Evidence

It will be said that what each individual can change is very little, considering his strength. This is true up to a point. But when the individual can associate himself with all the other individuals who want the same changes, and if the changes wanted are rational, the individual can be multiplied an impressive number of times and can obtain a change which is far more radical than at first sight ever seemed possible. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1260

Categorization

• XREF: The mechanism behind Gramsci’s concept of hegemony working from below — collective will formation later taken up in subaltern and postcolonial theory. — connects to: Elites hold power that mass movements can and do check through organized struggle; Participatory justice links individual empowerment to collective achievement rather than liberal individualism — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice:…, 254; Gradual consciousness-raising and collective action together can produce lasting ideological change — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 2022 (+7 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Elites hold power that mass movements can and do check through organized struggle; Participatory justice links individual empowerment to collective achievement rather than liberal individualism — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice:…, 254; Gradual consciousness-raising and collective action together can produce lasting ideological change — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 2022 (+7 more)