Political leadership can be exercised by a replaceable inner group, not one person
Evidence
However, the “leader” in politics may be an individual, but also be a more or less numerous political body: in the latter case, unity of purpose will be achieved by an individual (or by a small inner group, and within that small group by an individual) who may change from time to time even though the group remains united and consistent in its on-going activity. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 942
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Leadership theory wrestles with celebrating influence without endorsing tyranny. — Stephen Reicher, S. Alexander Haslam, and Nick Hopkins, Social identity and the dynamics of…, 20; Early modern political persons were heads of households, not individuals. — , Second Treatise of Government and A…, 54; Union-party coordination operates through freely chosen leadership, not formal subordination — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 870 (+6 more)
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Leadership theory wrestles with celebrating influence without endorsing tyranny. — Stephen Reicher, S. Alexander Haslam, and Nick Hopkins, Social identity and the dynamics of…, 20; Early modern political persons were heads of households, not individuals. — , Second Treatise of Government and A…, 54; Union-party coordination operates through freely chosen leadership, not formal subordination — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 870 (+6 more)
Broader Connections
- A political leader can be a collective body with shifting individual spokesmen
#expands(0.95) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 942 - A leaderless mass movement can outflank its own nominal leaders’ proposals
#complicates(0.72) — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 506 - Unregulated succession makes totalitarian leadership inseparable from the movement
#complicates(0.72) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 891