The United States remains stuck in an economic-corporate phase lacking cultural hegemony

Evidence

Spirito’s position, concretely, represents a return to the pure economicity of which he accuses his opponents. It is interesting to note that this position contains the essence of “Americanism”, 337 since America has not yet emerged from the economic-corporate phase which Europe passed through in the Middle Ages—in other words, has not yet created a conception of the world or a group of great intellectuals to lead the people within the ambit of civil society. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1010

Categorization

• XREF: Gramsci’s claim that America lacks an organic intellectual class that has integrated the people into civil society — connects to later readings on how racialized minorities are structurally excluded from that ‘integrated’ national community.