Gramsci’s imprisonment by fascism shaped his theory of the capitalist state

Evidence

If we combine Howard’s emphasis on disciplined selfreflection with Bentham’s ideas regarding the technology of internalization designed to make surveillance and discipline the purview of the individual prisoner, we can begin to see how such a conception of the prison had far-reaching implications. The conditions of possibility for this new form of punishment were strongly anchored in a historical era during which the working class needed to be constituted as an army of self-disciplined individuals capable of performing the requisite industrial labor for a developing capitalist system. — Davis, Angela Y, Are Prisons Obsolete, 115 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Gramsci’s state concept explains how capitalism became a whole way of social life; Prison disciplined workers for industrial capitalism — Davis, Angela Y, Are Prisons Obsolete, 115; The fascist regime isolated Gramsci through chained transfers and planted agents (+4 more)

Related

• Fascist imprisonment ended Gramsci’s active intellectual life at forty-six (similarity 0.83)
• Prison disciplined workers for industrial capitalism (similarity 0.83)
• Gramsci’s prison work grew from facing Italy’s fascist exceptional state (similarity 0.81)
• Gramsci’s state concept explains how capitalism became a whole way of social life (similarity 0.79)
• Gramsci applies passive revolution to the fascist regime itself (similarity 0.78)
• Prison expresses bourgeois labor’s logic rather than rehabilitation’s aim (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Prison disciplined workers for industrial capitalism #complicates (0.45) — Davis, Angela Y, Are Prisons Obsolete, 115