Economic restructuring does not make superstructural self-development automatic

Evidence

Because one is acting essentially on economic forces, reorganising and developing the apparatus of economic production, creating a new structure, the conclusion must not be drawn that superstructural factors should be left to themselves, to develop spontaneously, to a haphazard and sporadic germination. The State, in this field, too, is an instrument of “rationalisation”, of acceleration and of Taylorisation. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 926

Categorization

• XREF: Builds on the base/superstructure question — Gramsci refusing economic determinism here is the key move later state-theory and cultural-studies readings of hegemony rely on. — connects to: Relative autonomy reframes state-capital causality as multidirectional, not base-determined — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1671
• DEEPTHINKING: Dense, paradigm-relevant point: Gramsci insisting on the state as rationalizer of superstructure even during structural economic reorganization resists both voluntarism and crude economism.