History’s unity is a developing process, not a presupposition.

Evidence

The unity of history (what the idealists call unity of the spirit) is not a presupposition, but a continuously developing process. Identity in concrete reality determines identity of thought, and not vice versa. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 812

Categorization

• XREF: Historical materialism’s answer to idealist unity of spirit — relevant to Foucault’s genealogy and the rejection of teleological history that Islamophobia studies inherit. — connects to: Temporal succession is a uniting division, not sheer separation; Structure is a historical stage of group self-making, not a timeless property. — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 532; The world’s unity is material — one capitalist mode of production — not ideological. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures, 401 (+1 more)