Self-determination becomes reachable only through self-alienating strategic collectivity.

Evidence

It is within the framework of a strategic interest in the self-alienating displacing move of and by a consciousness of collectivity, then, that self-determination and an unalienated self-consciousness can be broached. In the definitions of “consciousness” offered by the Subaltern Studies group there are plenty of indications that they are in fact concerned with consciousness not in the general, but in this crucial narrow sense. — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader, 1766

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Collective strategic consciousness is necessarily self-alienating. — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader: Selected Works of…, 1764; The For-itself can only found itself by projecting toward a future it never reaches — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 453; Self-determination cannot precede the abolition of exploitation — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 227 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• The For-itself can only found itself by projecting toward a future it never reaches #expands (0.75) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 453
• Self-determination cannot precede the abolition of exploitation #corroborates (0.75) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 227
• The for-itself becomes itself only by assuming its alienated being-for-others #complicates (0.72) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 777
• Individual freedom is achieved only through the freedom of others #expands (0.72) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity, 144
• A society develops only when its members hold their own power of decision. #responds-to (0.70) — Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 510
• Individual stubbornness is only admirable in relation to a hardened collectivity #complicates (0.70)