What matters politically is that passive revolution generates hope enough to reinforce 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

Category: Causal Relationships

• XREF: Direct link to Gramsci’s hegemony/coercion dyad that later Islamophobia readings build on institutionalized discourse around.
• DEFINE: Clarifies that a schema’s political efficacy lies in its capacity to inspire expectation, not in its actual feasibility.

Related

• Passive-revolution ideology reinforces hegemony by manufacturing expectation and hope (similarity 0.92)
• Passive revolutions suppress some contradictions only to spawn new ones (similarity 0.79)
• Postwar hegemony had to be rebuilt around masses newly stirred into chaotic movement. (similarity 0.79)
• Gramsci applies passive revolution to the fascist regime itself (similarity 0.78)
• Revolutionary consciousness requires a precise concept of the State (similarity 0.78)
• Spontaneous subaltern movements usually enable regressive rather than progressive outcomes (similarity 0.78)