Conflating class-State with regulated society is a reactionary middle-class error

Evidence

The confusion of class-State and regulated society is peculiar to the middle classes and petty intellectuals, who would be glad of any regularisation that would prevent sharp struggles and upheavals. It is a typically reactionary and regressive conception. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 958

Categorization

Category: Definitional Content

• DEFINE: Gramsci draws a sharp line between the class-State and a ‘regulated society’ (post-State ideal); blurring the two is marked as petty-bourgeois, reactionary thinking.

Related

• The State evolves from government to nightwatchman to regulated society (similarity 0.88)
• A regulated society cannot exist while any class-State remains (similarity 0.87)
• Coercive State power can progressively wither into regulated civil society (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• A regulated society without a class-State is only possible under communism #corroborates (0.85)
• Coercive State power can progressively wither into regulated civil society #complicates (0.80)