The political party, not an individual, is the modern protagonist of political transformation

Evidence

It has already been said that the protagonist of the new Prince could not in the modern epoch be an individual hero, but only the political party. That is to say, at different times, and in the various internal relations of the various nations, that determinate party which has the aim of founding a new type of State (and which was rationally and historically created for that end). — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 660

Categorization

• XREF: Connects directly to the modernist collective-agency framing that later theory of social movements and state-building presupposes.