Studying collective will requires tracing its formation, not its effects

Evidence

In order to analyse critically what the proposition means, it is necessary to study precisely how permanent collective wills are formed, and how such wills set themselves concrete short-term and long-term ends—i.e. a line of collective action. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 795

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The group-study method remained theoretically confused in practice — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1884

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