Elementary foundational ideas grow into political pillars through innumerable repetition

Evidence

It really must be stressed that it is precisely the first elements, the most elementary things, which are the first to be forgotten. However, if they are repeated innumerable times, they become the pillars of politics and of any collective action whatsoever. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 651

Categorization

• XREF: This is the ‘common sense’ mechanism from earlier in the Notebooks, stated as a principle — the repetition that builds hegemony through sedimented common sense, which the Islamophobia toolkit reads as the construction of the Other through iteration. — connects to: Fading hope breeds reverent repetition of emptied political slogans. — Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia: Reflections from…, 143; Repeated ideological formulas work like magic rituals to enclose the mind. — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 384; Political change propagates from a single thinker through schools to public influence over decades — Angus Burgin, The Great Persuasion: Reinventing Free…, 554 (+4 more)
• DEEPTHINKING: A compressed statement of how ideology materializes: not grand theory but repetition of the most elementary elements until they become unquestioned pillars of collective action.
• APHORISMS: Reads as actual advice about political practice: to build collective action, repeat the elementary things until they become pillars.