Equating individual, society, and State by pure logic produces a fascist utopia.
Evidence
Fundamental question: the Utopia of Spirito and Volpicelli consists in confusing the State with the regulated society, a confusion which occurs by way of a purely ‘rationalistic’ concatenation of concepts: individual = society (the individual is not an ‘atom’ but the historical individuation of the entire society), society = State, hence individual = State. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 2340
Categorization
- XREF: Directly usable against later claims that state absorption of the nation (banal nationalism, statelessness discourse) is benign or natural.