Intellectual clairvoyance only becomes political when it becomes disseminated passion
Evidence
In fact, they never effected a juncture with actual reality, never became a general and operative national-popular consciousness. Out of the Action Party and the Moderates, which represented the real “subjective forces” of the Risorgimento? Without a shadow of doubt it was the Moderates, precisely because they were also aware of the role of the Action Party: thanks to this awareness, their “subjectivity” was of a superior and more decisive quality. In Victor Emmanuel’s crude, sergeant-major’s expression “we’ve got the Action Party in our pocket” there is more historico-political sense than in all Mazzini. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 572
Categorization
Category: Definitional Content
- DEFINE: Defines what counts as genuine subjective force: awareness that becomes operative national-popular consciousness, not mere foresight.
- XREF: Connects to Gramsci’s core notion of national-popular consciousness, carried forward into hegemony readings of Islamophobia.
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- Political realism is an inherited skill of ruling classes, not universal knowledge (similarity 0.78)