Political will means operative awareness of historical necessity in action.

Evidence

And a definition must be given of collective will, and of political will in general, in the modern sense: will as operative awareness of historical necessity, as protagonist of a real and effective historical drama. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 608

Categorization

• DEFINE: Key definition of collective will as operative awareness of historical necessity — a load-bearing concept for the toolkit.
• XREF: Connects forward to how Islamophobia scholars use Gramsci’s collective will and hegemony; also links to historicism in Marx. — connects to: Political action requires multiple distinct leaps of will beyond feeling injustice — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 48