Liberal state forms are prerequisites for Americanised industrial monopoly

Evidence

Americanisation requires a particular environment, a particular social structure (or at least a determined intention to create it) and a certain type of State. This State is the liberal State, not in the sense of free-trade liberalism or of effective political liberty, but in the more fundamental sense of free initiative and of economic individualism which, with its own means, on the level of “civil society”, through historical development, itself arrives at a regime of industrial concentration and monopoly. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1091

Categorization

• DEFINE: Distinguishes the ‘liberal State’ in Gramsci’s fundamental sense (free initiative, economic individualism, civil-society development) from free-trade liberalism and political liberty.
• XREF: Connects to Gramsci’s civil society / hegemony vocabulary that later Islamophobia readings on the construction of the Other assume.