Who among the following compares the organisations of civil society to a powerful system of ‘Fortresses…
In his Prison Notebooks, Italian Marxist theorist Antonio Gramsci contrasted Russia with advanced Western capitalist democracies, arguing that in the West the state is…
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Who among the following compares the organisations of civil society to a powerful system of ‘Fortresses and earthworks’ standing behind the state ?
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In his Prison Notebooks, Italian Marxist theorist Antonio Gramsci contrasted Russia with advanced Western capitalist democracies, arguing that in the West the state is merely an outer ditch behind which stands a powerful system of ‘fortresses and earthworks’—the cultural, educational, religious, and associative institutions of civil society that sustain bourgeois hegemony.
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