Generic slogans like unity can mask diverging political content under one hegemony

Evidence

Now the Moderates after 1848 formed a national bloc under their own hegemony-influencing the two supreme leaders of the Action Party, Mazzini and Garibaldi, in different ways and to a different extent. They did this precisely under the slogan of “independence and unity”, without taking any account of the concrete political content of such generic formulae. How successful the Moderates had been in their intention of diverting attention from the kernel to the husk is demonstrated, among so many other examples, by this expression of Guerrazzi’s in a letter to a Sicilian student*: “Whatever we desire-whether it is despotism or republic or anything else-let us not seek division among ourselves; with this guiding principle, the world can collapse and we will still find the way again.” — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 470

Categorization

• XREF: Moderate hegemony through empty slogans foreshadows Gramsci’s account of how ruling ideas circulate; connects to ‘common sense’ and how abstract formulae absorb revolutionary energy. — connects to: A state-assigned label can misfire and become a political rallying slogan — Manuel Borutta and Jan C. Jansen, Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs in Postwar…, 55; Antivar slogans differ in whether they presuppose a mythical national ‘we’; Vague ideological slogans can mask rather than resolve real political contradictions — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 2766 (+8 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: A state-assigned label can misfire and become a political rallying slogan — Manuel Borutta and Jan C. Jansen, Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs in Postwar…, 55; Antivar slogans differ in whether they presuppose a mythical national ‘we’; Vague ideological slogans can mask rather than resolve real political contradictions — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 2766 (+8 more)

Broader Connections

• Vague ideological slogans can mask rather than resolve real political contradictions #expands (0.92) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 2766
• Ideological labels simplify rather than distort the real political world #complicates (0.75) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 2085