Political reform cannot safely precede society-wide reconstruction

Evidence

It also helps us to understand how limited was the victory which the ‘political reform party’ obtained over the ‘social reform party’, and to understand that the view that social reform need not precede political reform is a view which may stand only when by social reform is meant the reform of the family. That political reform cannot with impunity take precedence over social reform in the sense of the reconstruction of society, is a thesis which I am sure cannot be controverted. — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 837

Categorization

• SEED: This ordering thesis bears directly on the reader’s question of how caste annihilation was implemented and what had to come first.
• XREF: connects to: Ambedkar rebuts the Congress claim that social reform and political reform are disconnected — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 820; Moral and cultural reform cannot proceed detached from economic reform — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 616; Moral reform requires structural change, not promises of better future conduct — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 1588 (+5 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Ambedkar rebuts the Congress claim that social reform and political reform are disconnected — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 820; Moral and cultural reform cannot proceed detached from economic reform — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 616; Moral reform requires structural change, not promises of better future conduct — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 1588 (+5 more)