The state’s educative aim is shaping new types of humanity fit for production

Evidence

Its aim is always that of creating new and higher types of civilisation; of adapting the “civilisation” and the morality of the broadest popular masses to the necessities of the continuous development of the economic apparatus of production; hence of evolving even physically new types of humanity. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 910

Categorization

• DEFINE: Gramsci’s definition of the state as educative/formative — a cornerstone for how biopolitical state power over populations is later theorized.
• XREF: Feeds directly into Foucault’s biopolitics and the production of docile subjects that Islamophobia scholarship inherits.
• DEEPTHINKING: The state not merely coercing but ‘evolving physically new types of humanity’ to match production apparatus is a dense, paradigm-level claim about state power’s anthropological ambition.