The oath and the Terror preserved the revolutionary group against collapse into seriality

Evidence

Already the oath and the Terror were implicit attempts on the part of the group itself to preserve itself in being from within, and to stave off an eventual collapse back into seriality. But as this danger increases, the group undergoes an even more decisive transformation and adaptation. It prolongs its life as a group primarily by developing an or- ganization, and it is clear that the demarcation of separate responsibilities, the assignment of tasks of different orders, the division of labor, are ultimately inconsistent with the total democracy and equality of the revolving thirds. — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 6446

Categorization

• DEFINE: Introduces the seriality-group distinction and shows the oath and Terror as mechanisms for group self-preservation — a causal account of revolutionary institutionalization.
• XREF: connects to: Every revolutionary oath implicitly contains its own enforcement, pre-consenting to the Terror — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 509

Related

• Every revolutionary oath implicitly contains its own enforcement, pre-consenting to the Terror (similarity 0.84)
• The group’s sovereign is a self-imposed defense against seriality, not an imposition from without. (similarity 0.79)