Widely sincerely-held revolutionary slogans can still be historically concrete

Evidence

It is necessary to insist, against a tendentious and fundamentally anti-historical school of thought, that the Jacobins were realists of the Machiavelli stamp and not abstract dreamers. They were convinced of the absolute truth of their slogans about equality, fraternity and liberty, and, what is more important, the great popular masses whom the Jacobins stirred up and drew into the struggle were also convinced of their truth. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 474

Categorization

• XREF: Idealist rhetoric as concrete historical force — the parallel to how ‘freedom’ functions in liberal discourse anticipates how Islamophobia studies treat sincerely-held universalist ideology as serving particular exclusionary interests.