Ideologies do not spread spontaneously but require organized struggle and politics.

Evidence

Gramsci refuses all notions that ideas move and ideologies develop spontaneously and without direction. Like every other sphere of civil life, religion requires organization: it possesses its specific sites of development, specific processes of transformation, specific practices of struggle. … “The relation between common sense and the upper level of philosophy,” he asserts, “is assured by ‘politics’ ” (PN, 331). — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 126

Categorization

• DEFINE: The common-sense/philosophy relation mediated by politics is a foundational mechanism the Islamophobia framework will reuse.
• XREF: connects to: An aggregation of texts requires binding ideology to become a counter-canon. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures, 360; Political unity is constructed, not natural, and must overcome inherent faction — Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum, A Lot of People Are Saying: The New…, 146