World War I disintegrated ruling hegemony apparatuses across all states

Evidence

The discussion on force and consent has shown that political science is relatively advanced in Italy, and is treated with a certain frankness of expression—even by individuals holding responsible positions in the State. The discussion in question is the debate about the “philosophy of the epoch”, about the central theme in the lives of the various states in the post-war period. How to reconstruct the hegemonic apparatus of the ruling group, an apparatus which disintegrated as a result of the war, in every state throughout the world? — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 875

Categorization

• QUESTION: Gramsci’s ‘why did the hegemonic apparatus disintegrate under mechanical causes’ question reads as a precursor to his fuller theory of hegemony and the crisis of authority.
• XREF: connects to: World War I dissolved international socialist solidarity through working-class nationalism — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 981; World War I nationalism destroyed international worker solidarity and the Second International — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 981; Multi-national states without a dominant ethnic core proved unstable in interwar Europe — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 2490 (+6 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: World War I dissolved international socialist solidarity through working-class nationalism — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 981; World War I nationalism destroyed international worker solidarity and the Second International — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 981; Multi-national states without a dominant ethnic core proved unstable in interwar Europe — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 2490 (+6 more)