Puritan ideologies dress up coercion as consent once total pressure succeeds

Evidence

When the pressure of coercion is exercised over the whole complex of society (and this has taken place in particular since the fall of slavery and the coming of Christianity) puritan ideologies develop which give an external form of persuasion and consent to the intrinsic use of force. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1111

When the pressure of coercion is exercised over the whole complex of society (and this has taken place in particular since the fall of slavery and the coming of Christianity) puritan ideologies develop which give an external form of persuasion and consent to the intrinsic use of force. But once the result has been achieved, if only to a degree, the pressure is fragmented. Historically this fragmentation has assumed many different forms, which is to be expected, since the pressure itself has always taken original and often personal forms—it has been identified with a religious movement, it has created an apparatus of its own incarnated in particular strata or castes, it has taken the name of a Cromwell or a Louis XV as the case may be. It is at this point that the crisis of libertinism ensues. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1111

Categorization

• XREF: Connects forward to hegemony and common sense in the Islamophobia toolkit — puritan ideology as manufactured consent is the same mechanism Gramsci elsewhere calls hegemony. — connects to: Hegemony combines coercion with actively won consent, with consent in the lead; Hegemony is rule achieved through consent rather than coercion — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 626; Under hegemony, organized consent displaces direct coercion as the main instrument (+6 more)
• DEFINE: Shows how ideology converts coercion into consent — the core Gramscian move the reader’s toolkit needs.
• BMF: The idea that a regime of total coercive pressure manufactures its own ideology of restraint which then fragments into scandal among the enforcers rather than the masses faintly recalls the engineered moral order and its cracks worn by the ruling party in We (Zamyatin), where the strictures bind Number/table-of-rivals yet the pressure originates from an abstracted will.
• corroborated: 3 independent passages support this claim — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1111

Broader Connections

• Hegemony combines coercion with actively won consent, with consent in the lead #complicates (0.85)
• Under hegemony, organized consent displaces direct coercion as the main instrument #complicates (0.82)
• Hegemony is rule achieved through consent rather than coercion #complicates (0.80) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 626
• Coerced confession coexisted with formal requirements that it appear spontaneous #exemplifies (0.80) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 89
• Coerced confessions force victims to accept fabrications as truth #exemplifies (0.78)
• Social control includes winning consent, not just coercive punishment #expands (0.75)
• Adaptation to industrial work methods requires combining coercion with persuasion and consent. #expands (0.75)