Historians should record every step toward subaltern autonomy including false starts

Evidence

The list of these phases can be broken down still further, with intermediate phases and combinations of several phases. The historian must record, and discover the causes of, the line of development towards integral autonomy, starting from the most primitive phases; he must note every manifestation of the Sorelian “spirit of cleavage”. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 417

Categorization

• DEFINE: Introduces the Sorelian ‘spirit of cleavage’ — the will to separation/rupture — as a marker historians watch for in subaltern development.
• XREF: connects to: Subaltern history traces development toward full autonomy; A group always finding itself right signals flawed historical method — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 812
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Subaltern history traces development toward full autonomy; A group always finding itself right signals flawed historical method — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 812

Broader Connections

• A group always finding itself right signals flawed historical method #complicates (0.72) — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 812