Many political and ideological acts serve organizational coherence needs
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: A key correction to crude base-superstructure determinism — warns against reading every ideological statement as directly structural, relevant to avoiding reductive readings of Islamophobic discourse.
Related
- Many political acts spring from organizational needs, not structure (similarity 0.97)
- Ideologies do not spread spontaneously but require organized struggle and politics. (similarity 0.81)
- Not every ideological shift directly mirrors the economic base. (similarity 0.79)
- Politics mediates between elite and popular philosophy without eliminating hierarchy. (similarity 0.79)
- Religions stay strong by preventing a split between intellectuals and lay faithful (similarity 0.78)