Single-party states displace politics into culture where disputes become insoluble

Evidence

For the functions of such a party are no longer directly political, but merely technical ones of propaganda and public order, and moral and cultural influence. The political function is indirect. For, even if no other legal parties exist, other parties in fact always do exist and other tendencies which cannot be legally coerced; and, against these, polemics are unleashed and struggles are fought as in a game of blind man’s buff. In any case it is certain that in such parties cultural functions predominate, which means that political language becomes jargon. In other words, political questions are disguised as cultural ones, and as such become insoluble. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 665

Categorization

• XREF: Directly scaffolds the Islamophobia toolkit: how hegemonic power operates through cultural rather than directly political channels, the displacement that later readings on cultural racism and ‘civilisational’ discourse build on.
• QUESTION: This claim — that disguised-as-cultural political questions become ‘insoluble’ — would reward tracing into contemporary discourse where political grievances get reframed as cultural incompatibility.