Members join parties for directive functions, not economic gain.

Evidence

A tradesman does not join a political party in order to do business, nor an industrialist in order to produce more at lower cost, nor a peasant to learn new methods of cultivation, even if some aspects of these demands of the tradesman, the industrialist or the peasant can find satisfaction in the party. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 296

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Groups organized around personal benefits favor compromise and shed members who gain nothing — Leonard S. Newman and Ralph Erber (eds.), Understanding Genocide: The Social…, 1088
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Groups organized around personal benefits favor compromise and shed members who gain nothing — Leonard S. Newman and Ralph Erber (eds.), Understanding Genocide: The Social…, 1088

Broader Connections

• Groups organized around personal benefits favor compromise and shed members who gain nothing #complicates (0.78) — Leonard S. Newman and Ralph Erber (eds.), Understanding Genocide, 1088