Subaltern transition from passive thing to active historical protagonist changes their responsibility

Evidence

But why? Because, basically, if yesterday the subaltern element was a thing, today it is no longer a thing but an historical person, a protagonist; if yesterday it was not responsible, because “resisting” a will external to itself, now it feels itself to be responsible because it is no longer resisting but an agent, necessarily active and taking the initiative. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1207

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the subaltern-to-protagonist transition — a core mechanism in Gramsci’s theory of historical agency.
• XREF: connects to: The subaltern subject is the knowing limit of all historical narration — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader: Selected Works of…, 1774; 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; A subaltern who becomes audible thereby ceases to be subaltern. — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader: Selected Works of…, 43