Organizational coherence drives political action more than economic structure does

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

• DEFINE: Introduces the principle that organizational-internal necessities, not base structure, explain much political and ideological struggle.
• XREF: A conceptual guard against naive structural readings that later Islamophobia-critical scholarship also relies on when refusing to reduce anti-Muslim discourse to pure class-economic cause. — connects to: Factional strength shifts through organizational, not ideological, factors — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 200