State power fuses hegemonic consent with coercive enforcement

Evidence

Gramsci captures this connection and of cultural representation). It is a player not just in productive, between the political sphere, civil society and coercion in his classic formulation of the state: “state = political society + civil society, in other words hegemony protected by the armour of coercion” (Gramsci 1971: 263) — David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 61

Categorization

• DEFINE: Quotes Gramsci’s concise definition of the state as political society plus civil society, hegemony armored by coercion.
• XREF: connects to: Durable domination requires both state force and internalized consent — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 465; The state is an equilibrium of coercion and consent run through civil society; Coercive sterilization incentives persist in the American criminal justice system. — Anna Merlan, Republic of Lies, 164 (+1 more)

Related

• The state is an equilibrium of coercion and consent run through civil society (similarity 0.87)
• State coercive power stands ready for moments when spontaneous consent fails (similarity 0.84)
• The State is domination plus the active consent of the ruled (similarity 0.83)
• The State is an equilibrium between coercive political society and hegemonic civil society (similarity 0.82)
• Private associations form the hegemonic apparatus underlying the coercive State (similarity 0.82)
• States that promote violence must escalate coercion to maintain rule (similarity 0.81)
• The state’s coercive arm withers as civil society expands within it. (similarity 0.81)
• Coercive State power can progressively wither into regulated civil society (similarity 0.80)
• Durable domination requires both state force and internalized consent (similarity 0.79)
• State form only loosely correlates with style of racial rule (similarity 0.79)
• The State is defined by ruling-class activity that secures the consent of the ruled (similarity 0.79)
• Hegemony requires a separation between civil and political society (similarity 0.79)
• State and civil society mutually constitute each other’s form (similarity 0.78)