"We are all conformists of some conformism or other, always man-in-the-mass or collective man." I believe the point he is trying to make here is akin to Ludwig WIttgenstein against the possibility of a private language. But Antonio Gramsci (1891 - 1937), being Gramsci, phrased the point so as to make it more political. Amartya Sen suggests that Gramsci may have influenced Wittgenstein's move away from the picture theory of knowledge.
