Only a class that will abolish itself can build a true ethical State

Evidence

Hegel’s conception belongs to a period in which the spreading development of the bourgeoisie could seem limitless, so that its ethicity or universality could be asserted: all mankind will be bourgeois. But, in reality, only the social group that poses the end of the State and its own end as the target to be achieved can create an ethical State—i.e. one which tends to put an end to the internal divisions of the ruled, etc., and to create a technically and morally unitary social organism. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 960

Categorization

• XREF: Grounds the idea that the ruling class projects its own universality — useful precedent for how Islamophobia discourse universalizes ‘Western’ or ‘Christian’ values as the ethical norm.