State intervention must extend from preserving to reorganizing the productive apparatus.

Evidence

But control by itself is not sufficient. It is not just a question of preserving the productive apparatus just as it is at a given moment. It is a matter of reorganising it in order to develop it in parallel with the increase in the population, and in collective needs. It is in these necessary developments that private initiative is involved in the greatest risks, and here therefore that State intervention should be even greater, not that it is entirely free from dangers itself, indeed far from it. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1152

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Category: Definitional Content

• XREF: The distinction between merely preserving the productive apparatus and reorganizing it to match population and collective needs prefigures the development-versus-conservation distinction later applied to civil society and hegemony.