Structure and superstructure form a unified historical bloc.

Evidence

In what sense can one identify politics with history, and hence all of life with politics? How then could the whole system of superstructures be understood as distinctions within politics, and the introduction of the concept of distinction into a philosophy of praxis hence be justified? But can one really speak of a dialectic of distincts, and how is the concept of a circle joining the levels of the superstructure to be understood? Concept of “historical bloc”, i.e. unity between nature and spirit (structure and superstructure), unity of opposites and of distincts. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 626

Categorization

• DEFINE: Condenses the definition of the ‘historical bloc’ — the unity of structure and superstructure — into a single pregnant phrase; this is a core toolkit term.
• QUESTION: This is largely a research-problem list in note form; the actual resolution of these questions appears in later notebook entries the reader may want to track down.