Organic elites express their social mass while volunteers detach themselves from it

Evidence

One must therefore distinguish between historically organic ideologies, those, that is, which are necessary to a given structure, and ideologies that are arbitrary, rationalistic, or “willed”. To the extent that ideologies are historically necessary they have a validity which is “psychological”; they “organise” human masses, and create the terrain on which men move, acquire consciousness of their position, struggle, etc. To the extent that they are arbitrary they only create individual “movements”, polemics and so on (though even these are not completely useless, since they function like an error which by contrasting with truth, demonstrates it). — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1342 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Masses are people unintegratable into common-interest organizations — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 746; Organic intellectuals must arise from and stay in contact with the masses — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1224; Anonymity rooted in self-stripping becomes a substitute for community belonging (+1 more)

Related

• Organic ideologies organize masses while arbitrary ones only produce individual movements (similarity 0.91)
• Representation requires organic cohesion, not merely formal delegation from masses to leaders (similarity 0.87)
• Immanentist philosophies fail by remaining confined to elite circles (similarity 0.87)
• Masses differ from classes by lacking common-interest articulation (similarity 0.85)
• Organic intellectuals must arise from and stay in contact with the masses (similarity 0.83)
• Organic intellectuals arise from technical-educational elaboration of labor. (similarity 0.81)
• Established organic forces consistently absorb spontaneous mass movements (similarity 0.81)
• Mass ideology must be distinguished from its great philosophical cornerstones (similarity 0.80)
• Voluntarism degenerates into false heroism when detached from organic social blocs. (similarity 0.80)
• Gramsci’s project centers on forging working-class organic intellectuals (similarity 0.80)
• Masses are people unintegratable into common-interest organizations (similarity 0.80)
• Organic versus traditional intellectuals is the key axis for analysis (similarity 0.79)
• Intellectuals are never class-neutral but split into traditional and organic types (similarity 0.79)
• Mass ideology differs from the elite philosophical cornerstones that must be engaged. (similarity 0.79)
• The term ‘ideology’ conflates necessary superstructure with arbitrary individual fancies (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Anonymity rooted in self-stripping becomes a substitute for community belonging #expands (0.75)
• Organic ideologies organize masses while arbitrary ones only produce individual movements #expands (0.72) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1342