War of position analysis does not apply to colonies and backward states

Evidence

This question is posed for the modern States, but not for backward countries or for colonies, where forms which elsewhere have been superseded and have become anachronistic are still in vigour. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 913

Categorization

• XREF: The claim that colonies still run ‘superseded’ political forms is exactly the terrain Said later critiques — Gramsci inadvertently reproduces the teleological colonial narrative his toolkit will be used against.
• QUESTION: How do postcolonial theorists of Islamophobia reconcile their reliance on Gramscian hegemony with this exclusion of the colonial case from his own theory?