Representation requires organic cohesion, not merely formal delegation from masses to leaders

Evidence

One must therefore distinguish between historically organic ideologies, those, that is, which are necessary to a given structure, and ideologies that are arbitrary, rationalistic, or “willed”. To the extent that ideologies are historically necessary they have a validity which is “psychological”; they “organise” human masses, and create the terrain on which men move, acquire consciousness of their position, struggle, etc. To the extent that they are arbitrary they only create individual “movements”, polemics and so on (though even these are not completely useless, since they function like an error which by contrasting with truth, demonstrates it). — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1342 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Masses are people unintegratable into common-interest organizations — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 746; A national-popular bloc requires religious and intellectual cohesion between elite and masses; Organic ideologies organize masses while arbitrary ones only produce individual movements — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1342 (+5 more)

Related

• Organic elites express their social mass while volunteers detach themselves from it (similarity 0.87)
• Organic ideologies organize masses while arbitrary ones only produce individual movements (similarity 0.87)
• Masses differ from classes by lacking common-interest articulation (similarity 0.86)
• True political representation requires organic cohesion between rulers and ruled (similarity 0.86)
• Immanentist philosophies fail by remaining confined to elite circles (similarity 0.84)
• Political movements should be analyzed via mass content and balance of forces (similarity 0.81)
• Masses are people unintegratable into common-interest organizations (similarity 0.81)
• Mass ideology differs from the elite philosophical cornerstones that must be engaged. (similarity 0.80)
• Mass ideology must be distinguished from its great philosophical cornerstones (similarity 0.79)
• Religion can bind intellectuals and masses only when it originates from the people (similarity 0.78)
• A national-popular bloc requires religious and intellectual cohesion between elite and masses (similarity 0.78)
• Organic and democratic centralism are organisational forms hiding real political relations (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• A national-popular bloc requires religious and intellectual cohesion between elite and masses #corroborates (0.85)
• Organic ideologies organize masses while arbitrary ones only produce individual movements #expands (0.80) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1342
• Political representation actively constitutes the class it claims to express #contradicts (0.78)
• Identity is constituted within representation rather than pre-existing it #contradicts (0.78)