Spontaneous subaltern movements usually enable regressive rather than progressive outcomes

Evidence

The “spontaneous” movements of the broader popular strata make possible the coming to power of the most progressive subaltern class as a result of the objective weakening of the State. This is still a “progressive” example; but, in the modern world, the regressive examples are more frequent. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 809

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘regressive examples are more frequent’ claim anticipates the Islamophobia field’s question of why spontaneous anti-immigrant or anti-Muslim movements tend toward regressive politics.