Without false belief in totality no one would act to create history

Evidence

Every philosopher is, and cannot but be, convinced that he expresses the unity of the human spirit, that is, the unity of history and nature. Indeed, if such a conviction did not exist, men would not act, they would not create new history, philosophies would not become ideologies and would not in practice assume the fanatical granite compactness of the “popular beliefs” which assume the same energy as “material forces”. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1435

Categorization

• QUESTION: Does Gramsci mean that a correct self-understanding (acknowledging one’s partiality) would debilitate action, hence the productive necessity of each system’s self-delusion about unity?
• XREF: connects to: No factual state can by itself motivate any action — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 1069; Every civilization at its peak falsely believes its history has ended — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 826; A fully conscious model of historical action fails to capture history’s impersonality — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 455 (+3 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: No factual state can by itself motivate any action — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 1069; Every civilization at its peak falsely believes its history has ended — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 826; A fully conscious model of historical action fails to capture history’s impersonality — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 455 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• The past yields no imperative, being only indicative fact #complicates (0.75)
• A fully conscious model of historical action fails to capture history’s impersonality #complicates (0.74) — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 455