Antonio Gramsci, writing in a fascist prison in the early 1930s, distinguished between wars of position—the slow struggle over culture, values, and consent—and wars of maneuver, or direct confrontation with capitalist power.
It's useful for thinking through something I've been sitting with: the contradiction between feeling genuinely nourished by Pope Leo XIV's liberation theology posting on Twitter and his AI encyclical Magnifica Humanitas, and worrying that the moral register he's working in — however beautiful — leaves capitalism structurally intact and keeps radical energy locked on position, while fascists run maneuvers at will.
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