The state lacks a unitary worldview, scattering intellectuals across strata

Evidence

But it should be noted that in all countries, though in differing degrees, there is a great gap between the popular masses and the intellectual groups, even the largest ones, and those nearest to the peripheries of national life, like priests and school teachers. The reason for this is that, however much the ruling class may affirm to the contrary, the State, as such, does not have a unitary, coherent and homogeneous conception, with the result that intellectual groups are scattered between one stratum and the next, or even within a single stratum. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1230

Categorization

• XREF: Directly relevant to the toolkit: the state-as-fragmented rather than monolithic is a premise later postcolonial and Islamophobia-critical readings build on.