A party can prefigure a state by meeting intellectuals’ needs through its services

Evidence

A party like that of the Moderates offered the mass of the intellectuals all the satisfactions for their general needs which can be offered by a government (by a governing party) through the State services. After 1848-49, the Piedmontese State served perfectly as far as this function of Italian governing party was concerned; it welcomed the exiled intellectuals, and provided a model of what a future unified State would do. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 547

Categorization

• XREF: Relevant to hegemony theory — how a party functions as a proto-state apparatus for winning intellectual allegiances.