Civil society stands between economic structure and the coercive State.

Evidence

Between the economic structure and the State with its legislation and its coercion stands civil society, and the latter must be radically transformed, in a concrete sense and not simply on the statute-book or in scientific books. The State is the instrument for conforming civil society to the economic structure, but it is necessary for the State to ‘be willing’ to do this; i.e. for the representatives of the change that has taken place in the economic structure to be in control of the State. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 829

Categorization

• XREF: The three-tier model (economy, civil society, state) is the scaffolding later Islamophobia readings build on. — connects to: A society’s economic base determines its political and juridical superstructure. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1628