Gramsci wrote that in advanced states, civil society has become a very complex structure. The superstructures of civil society are like the trench systems of modern warfare,. In Russia, the state was everything; Civil society was primordial and gelatinous. When the state trembled, a sturdy structure of civil society was at once revealed.
Featuring Michael Denning on Antonio Gramsci. The second of a two-part interview.
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