National-popular collective will requires the peasant mass to enter politics simultaneously.

Evidence

Any formation of a national-popular collective will is impossible, unless the great mass of peasant farmers bursts simultaneously into political life. That was Machiavelli’s intention through the reform of the militia, and it was achieved by the Jacobins in the French Revolution. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 612

Categorization

  • corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 612
  • XREF: connects to: Peasant and intellectual initiatives advance each other reciprocally

Broader Connections