A saturated bourgeois class reverts to the State as pure force

Evidence

How this process comes to a halt, and the conception of the State as pure force is returned to, etc. The bourgois class is “saturated”: it not only does not expand—it starts to disintegrate; it not only does not assimilate new elements, it loses part of itself (or at least its losses are enormously more numerous than its assimilations). A class claiming to be capable of assimilating the whole of society, and which was at the same time really able to express such a process, would perfect this conception of the State and of law, so as to conceive the end of the State and of law—rendered useless since they will have exhausted their function and will have been absorbed by civil society. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 968

Categorization

• XREF: The saturated-class dynamic giving up assimilation for coercion maps onto how exclusion regimes treat groups they no longer try to absorb.
• QUESTION: How would this ‘saturation and disintegration’ thesis play out against the historical examples the reader’s Islamophobia module will examine?