A regulated society cannot exist while any class-State remains

Evidence

As long as the class-State exists the regulated society cannot exist, other than metaphorically—i.e. only in the sense that the class-State too is a regulated society. The Utopians, in as much as they expressed a critique of the society that existed in their day, very well understood that the class-State could not be the regulated society. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 956

Categorization

• DEFINE: Distinguishes class-State from regulated society as a corner concept for Gramsci’s political vocabulary.
• XREF: Pairs with how postcolonial theorists distinguish state coercion from a consensual, regulated social order.