Established organic forces consistently absorb spontaneous mass movements

Evidence

One must therefore distinguish between historically organic ideologies, those, that is, which are necessary to a given structure, and ideologies that are arbitrary, rationalistic, or “willed”. To the extent that ideologies are historically necessary they have a validity which is “psychological”; they “organise” human masses, and create the terrain on which men move, acquire consciousness of their position, struggle, etc. To the extent that they are arbitrary they only create individual “movements”, polemics and so on (though even these are not completely useless, since they function like an error which by contrasting with truth, demonstrates it). — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1342 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

It is on this deep level that the future—which will later on seem to burst suddenly and without warning into bloom—is being prepared. The same thing happens in the United States. Resistance to the war in Vietnam, however weak it may seem in comparison with the apparent omnipotence of the imperialist apparatus, must be understood as a highly important symptom of what is gestating in the still unconscious depths of broad segments of the population. The United States is not isolated by any cordon sanitaire from the revolution which is engulfing mankind, and each aggressive step that its government takes along the road of counter-revolution inevitably awakens opposing forces within the country. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 41 (#qualifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Organic ideologies organize masses while arbitrary ones only produce individual movements — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1342; Mass resistance develops in unconscious depths before surfacing suddenly — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 41; Slave isolation and dependence on masters slowed mass movement formation (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Organic ideologies organize masses while arbitrary ones only produce individual movements #corroborates (0.90) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1342
• Slave isolation and dependence on masters slowed mass movement formation #corroborates (0.80)
• Mass resistance develops in unconscious depths before surfacing suddenly #qualifies (0.75) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 41