Every political action serves some faction, even if not one’s own

Evidence

Given that whatever one does one is always playing somebody’s game, the important thing is to seek in every way to play one’s own game with success—in other words, to win decisively. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 683

Categorization

• DEFINE: A compressed statement of Gramsci’s realism about the impossibility of neutrality in political struggle.
• XREF: connects to: Every moderation change has winners and losers, so each decision is political. — Tarleton Gillespie, Custodians of the Internet: Platforms,…, 518