A party can wield hegemony by satisfying intellectuals’ needs like a state.

Evidence

The study of encyclopaedic and specialised reviews furnishes another aspect of the Moderates’ hegemony. 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: Shows how the party’s hegemony anticipates the state’s - a mechanism relatable to how cultural/intellectual institutions prefigure state power in colonial contexts.

Related

• A political party can absorb intellectuals by replicating the state’s services (similarity 0.92)
• A ruling class needs its own intellectuals to exercise hegemony alongside coercion (similarity 0.81)
• Hegemony means the party internalizing State rules as moral conduct (similarity 0.79)
• Political parties are mechanisms for producing organic intellectuals (similarity 0.79)
• The State is an equilibrium between coercive political society and hegemonic civil society (similarity 0.79)
• A newly hegemonic subaltern group must build a new intellectual and moral order (similarity 0.79)
• Gramsci proposes virtues that sustain a party’s hegemonic culture against older ones (similarity 0.79)
• Political parties remain the most effective instrument for producing leaders (similarity 0.78)