Private associations form the hegemonic apparatus underlying the coercive State

Evidence

In this multiplicity of private associations (which are of two kinds: natural, and contractual or voluntary) one or more predominates relatively or absolutely—constituting the hegemonic apparatus of one social group over the rest of the population (or civil society): the basis for the State in the narrow sense of the governmental-coercive apparatus. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 984

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the distinction between hegemonic apparatus (civil society’s private associations) and the State proper (the coercive apparatus).
• XREF: This directly feeds the Gramscian notion of hegemony that the Islamophobia toolkit reads for — civil society as the terrain where consent rather than coercion is manufactured. — connects to: Ideological hegemony substitutes for physical coercion in stable hierarchies — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology: Key Readings, 3223; Unintended consequences of private passion can form durable social institutions — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 2047