Parliament’s real status within the State structure is an open question

Evidence

The notion that Parliament may have become “inserted” into the State is a discovery in the science and art of politics that is worthy of the Christopher Columbuses of contemporary Reaction. All the same, the assertion is interesting as evidence of the way in which many politicians conceive the State in practice. For the question does indeed have to be asked: do parliaments, even in those countries where apparently they have most real power, in fact constitute a part of the State structure? In other words, what is their real function? — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 946

Categorization

• QUESTION: Gramsci’s question about whether parliaments are truly part of the State structure could reframe the state-civil society distinction used in Islamophobia critique.
• XREF: connects to: Discussion defined parliamentarism for Schmitt, not majority rule alone — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism: A Marxist…, 452

Related

• Discussion defined parliamentarism for Schmitt, not majority rule alone (similarity 0.82)