Collective historical action requires a shared cultural conception welding dispersed wills into one aim

Evidence

From this one can deduce the importance of the “cultural aspect”, even in practical (collective) activity. An historical act can only be performed by “collective man”, and this presupposes the attainment of a “cultural-social” unity through which a multiplicity of dispersed wills, with heterogeneous aims, are welded together with a single aim, on the basis of an equal and common conception of the world, both general and particular, operating in transitory bursts (in emotional ways) or permanently (where the intellectual base is so well rooted, assimilated and experienced that it becomes passion. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1251

Categorization

• DEFINE: Establishes that ‘collective man’ and cultural-social unity are prerequisites to any historical act — core Gramscian scaffolding.
• XREF: Connects to the reader’s Islamophobia toolkit: how narratives weld heterogeneous populations into a single national-cultural will.