Gramsci described the Western State inconsistently as both outer ditch and citadel

Evidence

In the passage referred to above, civil society resists before the frontal assault on the State. Yet, in another of the notes grouped under the title ” Political Struggle and Military War”, Gramsci describes the State in the West as “an outer ditch, behind which there stand a powerful system of fortresses and earthworks”—i.e. in precisely the opposite way. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 827

Categorization

• QUESTION: Which image is operative for Islamophobia analysis — is the Muslim subject disciplined by the State’s outer ditch or by diffuse civil-society fortresses? Gramsci never resolves it.
• XREF: connects to: Gramsci never fixed one consistent definition of the State or civil society — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 827
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Gramsci never fixed one consistent definition of the State or civil society — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 827

Broader Connections

• Gramsci never fixed one consistent definition of the State or civil society #expands (0.92) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 827