Coercive State power can progressively wither into regulated civil society
Evidence
It is possible to imagine the coercive element of the State withering away by degrees, as ever-more conspicuous elements of regulated society (or ethical State or civil society) make their appearance. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 977
Categorization
Category: Definitional Content
- DEFINE: Gramsci’s ‘regulated society’ as the withering-away telos of the State — a concept Islamophobia critiques may misread.
- QUESTION: Worth chasing how later theorists (e.g. Hardt/Negri’s Empire) deploy or reject this regulated-society telos.
Related
- The state’s coercive arm withers as civil society expands within it. (similarity 0.93)
- The State evolves from government to nightwatchman to regulated society (similarity 0.85)
- A regulated society cannot exist while any class-State remains (similarity 0.82)
- State power fuses hegemonic consent with coercive enforcement (similarity 0.81)
- Civil society stands between economic structure and the coercive State. (similarity 0.81)
- The State is an equilibrium between coercive political society and hegemonic civil society (similarity 0.80)
- Conflating class-State with regulated society is a reactionary middle-class error (similarity 0.80)
- The state educates populations by shaping customs beyond formal legal sanction. (similarity 0.79)
- Laissez-faire is itself a form of state regulation, not an absence of it (similarity 0.79)