The State evolves from government to nightwatchman to regulated society

Evidence

The confusion of class-State and regulated society is peculiar to the middle classes and petty intellectuals, who would be glad of any regularisation that would prevent sharp struggles and upheavals. It is a typically reactionary and regressive conception. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 958 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

Category: Definitional Content

Related

• Conflating class-State with regulated society is a reactionary middle-class error (similarity 0.88)
• Coercive State power can progressively wither into regulated civil society (similarity 0.85)
• The state’s coercive arm withers as civil society expands within it. (similarity 0.82)
• A regulated society cannot exist while any class-State remains (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• Coercive State power can progressively wither into regulated civil society #corroborates (0.92)
• Conflating class-State with regulated society is a reactionary middle-class error #complicates (0.85) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 958
• Risk-prone expansion drives state intervention beyond mere apparatus preservation #qualifies (0.78)