Representation requires an organic feeling-understanding-knowledge chain linking rulers and ruled into a historical bloc

Evidence

If the relationship between intellectuals and people-nation, between the leaders and the led, the rulers and the ruled, is provided by an organic cohesion in which feeling-passion becomes understanding and thence knowledge (not mechanically but in a way that is alive), then and only then is the relationship one of representation. Only then can there take place an exchange of individual elements between the rulers and ruled, leaders [dirigenti ] and led, and can the shared life be realised which alone is a social force— with the creation of the “historical bloc”. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1498 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: True political representation requires organic cohesion between rulers and ruled — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1498; Representation requires organic cohesion, not merely formal delegation from masses to leaders; Experiencing living history instills a felt sense of belonging to a larger whole — Freeman Tilden, Interpreting Our Heritage, 480

Broader Connections

• True political representation requires organic cohesion between rulers and ruled #expands (0.95) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1498
• Representation requires organic cohesion, not merely formal delegation from masses to leaders #expands (0.92)