Rhetorical action collapses when external support is withdrawn

Evidence

The former is creating a future which is intrinsic to its objective activity and which it prefers to keep quiet about. The second only creates a superior kind of puppet, modelled on a basis of rhetorical predicates, which will collapse into nothingness the moment the strings are cut which give from outside the appearance of motion and of life. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1132

Categorization

• XREF: Pairs with Gramsci’s later distinction between organic and arbitrary/conjunctural ideologies in his analysis of how durable hegemony is built. — connects to: Institutionalized discursive practices can lose credibility and collapse — Jürgen Habermas, A New Structural Transformation of the…, 53; Subaltern speech becomes agency only within responsive resistance; Trust between dialoguers requires words to coincide with actions — Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 266
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Institutionalized discursive practices can lose credibility and collapse — Jürgen Habermas, A New Structural Transformation of the…, 53; Subaltern speech becomes agency only within responsive resistance; Trust between dialoguers requires words to coincide with actions — Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 266

Broader Connections

• Trust between dialoguers requires words to coincide with actions #complicates (0.73) — Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 266