Religion, State, and party form an indissoluble unity rather than separable priority

Evidence

In Mein Kampf , Hitler writes: “The founding or the destruction of a religion is an action of immeasurably greater importance than the founding or the destruction of a State: not to speak of a party…” Superficial and acritical. The three elements—religion (or “active” conception of the world), State, party—are indissoluble, and in the real process of historico-political development there is a necessary passage from one to the other. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 992

Categorization

• DEFINE: Encodes the periodization by which religion becomes an ‘active conception of the world’ bound into the State-party nexus.
• QUESTION: Worth tracing how Gramsci’s insistence on this trinity prefigures his fuller theory of intellectuals and the party as carriers of worldview.
• XREF: connects to: Christian Statism pursues exclusive state power over cultural dominance — Ruiqian Li and Paul Froese, The Duality of American Christian…, 44; Religion fuses with nationalism only when it legitimizes actual state governance — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized:…, 75