Cases / The American Landing / War of position
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Filed as concept or doctrine, standing in one authored connection inside The American Landing, dated late 1931-January 1932.
Working definition from the source
A protracted revolutionary strategy for Western societies whose dense civil institutions make a rapid frontal seizure insufficient. It requires mass organization, hegemony, patience, and national reconnaissance of the terrain.
Originating text
Selections from the Prison Notebooks, pp. 229-239
Role in the Long Insurgency
This concept is part of the opening intellectual architecture. Later transmission, adoption, and implementation must be established through separate relationship evidence.
Current limits
The prison notebooks are fragmentary and Gramsci's terminology develops across different notes. Avoid reducing the concept to a slogan.
Chronology repair
Developed in prison as a protracted strategic response to Western civil-society depth. It is not reducible to peaceful reform or covert institutional entry.
Full locators, draft-status cautions, disputes, and gaps: Research Memo: Gramsci Concept, Publication, and Reception Chronology.
Critical-apparatus correction
The exact manuscript identities, dates, textual strata, editions, and translation carriers for this concept are separated in Research Memo: Gramsci Prison Extract Apparatus, v1.
The archive holds one authored connection for this record inside The American Landing. Each row below states the claim, its tier, its confidence, and the dates the record gives. Open a row for the full account, or open it on the case canvas to see the connection drawn.
REL-000102Appears in late 1931-January 1932 Account not writtenWar of position appears in Gramsci Prison Notebook Q6§138: War of position.
documented confidence · high this record is the subject
This connection is recorded. Its account has not been written. Gramsci Prison Notebook Q6§138: War of position →