Treating society as naturally evolutionary impoverished the concept of the State

Evidence

Conviction that the constitutions and parliaments had initiated an epoch of “natural” “evolution”, that society had discovered its definitive, because rational, foundations, etc. And, lo and behold, society can now be studied with the methods of the natural sciences! Impoverishment of the concept of the State which ensued from such views. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 915

Categorization

• XREF: This is Gramsci’s critique of positivist sociology and ‘natural evolution’ that connects to the reader’s understanding of how colonial/racist knowledge claims disguised ideology as science.