Gramsci’s dismantling of the unified class subject parallels his dismantling of the state.

Evidence

The implicit attack which Gramsci advances on the traditional conception of the “given” and unified ideological class subject, which lies at the center of so much traditional Marxist theorizing in this area, matches in importance Gramsci’s effective dismantling of the state, on which I commented earlier. — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 127

Categorization

Category: Connection Points

• XREF: The state-dismantling link ties back to Galanter and the institution literature; the subject-dismantling feeds the identity/representation module in the reader’s scaffolding.