Statolatry must be criticised so civil society becomes self-governing and spontaneous

Evidence

The historical unity of the ruling classes is realised in the State, and their history is essentially the history of States and of groups of States. But it would be wrong to think that this unity is simply juridical and political (though such forms of unity do have their importance too, and not in a purely formal sense); the fundamental historical unity, concretely, results from the organic relations between State or political society and “civil society”. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 415 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

Category: Definitional Content

Related

• Ruling-class unity is forged through the organic ties between State and civil society (similarity 0.89)
• The corporatist state is plutocratic in structure despite its populist base (similarity 0.87)
• States rule subject groups by allying with their internal elites (similarity 0.82)
• The State is an equilibrium between coercive political society and hegemonic civil society (similarity 0.80)
• A newly hegemonic subaltern group must build a new intellectual and moral order (similarity 0.80)
• Consolidated Western civil society blocks the Russian-style seizure of state power. (similarity 0.80)
• Modern states replace the mechanical bloc with active hegemony by dominant groups (similarity 0.79)
• Gramsci never fixed one consistent definition of the State or civil society (similarity 0.79)
• The state is an equilibrium of coercion and consent run through civil society (similarity 0.79)
• All state powers are organs of hegemony in varying degrees (similarity 0.79)
• Hegemony requires a separation between civil and political society (similarity 0.78)
• Self-government requires a rentier class with traditional public-affairs experience and mass prestige (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Ruling-class unity is forged through the organic ties between State and civil society #expands (0.78) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 415
• Hegemony requires a separation between civil and political society #expands (0.75)
• Power cannot self-realize but depends on societal-structural conditions for legitimacy #corroborates (0.72)
• Loss of central authority leads to widespread societal chaos #contradicts (0.70)