The mere promise of passive revolution manufactures hope that reinforces ruling-class hegemony.

Evidence

What is important from the political and ideological point of view is that it is capable of creating—and indeed does create—a period of expectation and hope, especially in certain Italian social groups such as the great mass of urban and rural petit bourgeois. It thus reinforces the hegemonic system and the forces of military and civil coercion at the disposal of the traditional ruling classes. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 590

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: A striking claim: the passive-revolution schema matters not by whether it succeeds but by the expectation it generates — hegemony operating through manufactured hope rather than achieved outcomes.
• XREF: Expectation-manufacture as a hegemonic tool parallels how aspirational identity narratives maintain consent — usable in Islamophobia analysis of solidarity rhetoric that preempts real change.