Modern state disintegration is worse than medieval because it lacks integrative forces

Evidence

This process of disintegration of the modern State is, however, far more catastrophic than the mediaeval historical process, which was disintegrative and integrative at the same time, given the particular grouping which was the motor of the historical process itself, and given the type of State which had existed since the beginning of the millennium in Europe-a State which was innocent of the centralisation of today, and which could be called “federative of the dominant classes” rather than the State of a single dominant class . — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1005

Categorization

• XREF: Feeds the breakdown-of-hegemony narrative later Islamophobia scholars deploy to explain backlash politics. — connects to: The modern state has been effectively shrinking for years, not growing — Michel Foucault, The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at…, 1018