Fatalistic determinism arose as ideology suited to subaltern social strata.

Evidence

It should be noted how the deterministic, fatalistic and mechanistic element has been a direct ideological “aroma” emanating from the philosophy of praxis, rather like religion or drugs (in their stupefying effect). It has been made necessary and justified historically by the “subaltern” 411 character of certain social strata. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1205

Categorization

• DEFINE: Introduces the subaltern category — a central, load-bearing concept for the reader’s toolkit.
• XREF: Directly feeds the reader’s stated goal: ‘subaltern’ is a cornerstone term deployed throughout postcolonial and Islamophobia scholarship.
• DEEPTHINKING: The claim that collective fatalism functions as ideology for marginalized strata, produced by their structural position rather than mere ignorance, is a dense mechanism worth sitting with — it problematizes straightforward emancipation narratives.