Real mass politics unites subaltern spontaneity with conscious leadership
Evidence
This unity between “spontaneity” and “conscious leadership” or “discipline” is precisely the real political action of the subaltern classes, in so far as this is mass politics and not merely an adventure by groups claiming to represent the masses. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 806
Categorization
Category: Definitional Content
Related
- Subaltern movements contain conscious leadership without a dominant, stratum-transcending element (similarity 0.84)
- Every spontaneous movement contains rudimentary elements of conscious leadership and discipline (similarity 0.81)
- Spontaneity marks subaltern classes that lack class-for-itself consciousness (similarity 0.81)
- Class consciousness shapes the gestalt of thought, not its details (similarity 0.81)
- Every political action serves some faction, even if not one’s own (similarity 0.79)