Subaltern history traces development toward full autonomy
Evidence
The historian must record, and discover the causes of, the line of development towards integral autonomy, starting from the most primitive phases; he must note every manifestation of the Sorelian “spirit of cleavage”. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 417
Categorization
- DEFINE: Explains the Sorelian ‘spirit of cleavage’ as the subaltern group’s will toward integral autonomy.
- XREF: connects to: Working for the subaltern means their insertion into citizenship and loss of subaltern space — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader: Selected Works of…, 2430
Related
- Working for the subaltern means their insertion into citizenship and loss of subaltern space (similarity 0.83)
- Subaltern classes lack unity until they achieve statehood, hence history of subalternity (similarity 0.81)
- Subaltern transition from passive thing to active historical protagonist changes their responsibility (similarity 0.80)