Many political acts spring from organizational needs, not structure
Evidence
It is not sufficiently borne in mind that many political acts are due to internal necessities of an organisational character, that is they are tied to the need to give coherence to a party, a group, a society. This is made clear for example in the history of the Catholic Church. If, for every ideological struggle within the Church one wanted to find an immediate primary explanation in the structure one would really be caught napping: all sorts of politico-economic romances have been written for this reason. It is evident on the contrary that the majority of these discussions are connected with sectarian and organisational necessities. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1453
Categorization
Category: Causal Relationships
- XREF: Organs of cohesion and sectarian necessity — a mechanism later Islamophobia work must weigh against base-only explanations of ideological production.