Subaltern movements contain conscious leadership without a dominant, stratum-transcending element

Evidence

Hence in such movements there exist multiple elements of “conscious leadership”, but no one of them is predominant or transcends the level of a given social stratum’s “popular science”- its “common sense” or traditional conception of the world. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 804

Categorization

• DEFINE: Extends the spontaneity definition: subaltern movements have leadership elements but none rises above ‘popular science’ level.