Following Gramsci, the crisis of authority could take place in two ways. Firstly, the ruling class can lose the consensus of their power over other social groups, and secondly, rather than being a weak class the subaltern/subordinate social groups can overcome political passivity and begin to articulate their own demands to the ruling class. In addition, Salamini argues that organic crisis in Gramsci’s perspective occurs as a result of contradictions which accumulate over time within a specific historical bloc, offsetting the institutionalised equilibrium of forces.