The state includes the private apparatus of hegemony beyond government
Evidence
For Halevy, “State” is the representative apparatus; and he discovers that the most important events of French history from 1870 until the present day have not been due to initiatives by political organisms deriving from universal suffrage, but to those either of private organisms (capitalist firms, General Staffs, etc.) or of great civil servants unknown to the country at large, etc. But what does that signify if not that by “State” should be understood not only the apparatus of government, but also the “private” apparatus of “hegemony” or civil society? — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 970
Categorization
Category: Definitional Content
- DEFINE: Defines the ‘State’ as both the government apparatus and the private apparatus of hegemony/civil society — a central Gramsci vocabulary item.
- XREF: This is the expanded state concept the Islamophobia toolkit needs — where representation includes civil-society and private-capital apparatus.
Related
- Private associations form the hegemonic apparatus underlying the coercive State (similarity 0.83)
- Civil society itself exercises hegemony and thus is the State proper (similarity 0.83)
- The State is an equilibrium between coercive political society and hegemonic civil society (similarity 0.81)
- Gramsci uses civil society to mean political and cultural hegemony, not Hegel’s economic sphere. (similarity 0.79)
- The state actively educates and organizes the consent it governs by (similarity 0.79)