Revolutionary consciousness requires a precise concept of the State

Evidence

The concept of revolutionary and of internationalist, in the modern sense of the word, is correlative with the precise concept of State and of class: little understanding of the State means little class consciousness (and understanding of the State exists not only when one defends it, but also when one attacks it in order to overthrow it); hence low level of effectiveness of the parties, etc. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1017

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

• XREF: This mechanism — understanding the state even in order to attack it — is a key move later Islamophobia critiques use against liberal framing.

Related

• Corporate-statist ideology lets the State claim popular backing while remaining plutocratic. (similarity 0.82)
• Revolutionary renewal depends on a country’s internal and international force relations (similarity 0.81)
• Modern state disintegration is worse than medieval because it lacks integrative forces (similarity 0.80)
• Revolutionary regimes attract blind faith, not grounded trust (similarity 0.80)
• A class lacking moral prestige can borrow the State’s reflected authority to found itself (similarity 0.80)
• The State’s dominant group presents its interests as universal rather than corporate. (similarity 0.79)
• The state lacks a unitary worldview, scattering intellectuals across strata (similarity 0.79)
• Revolutionary problems transcend national boundaries and require international coordination (similarity 0.78)
• What matters politically is that passive revolution generates hope enough to reinforce hegemony. (similarity 0.78)