...capitalism depends precisely on this mediation of the State, which allows the bourgeoisie to 'present itself as an organism in continuous movement, capable of absorbing the entire society' (Gramsci 1973). This same type of State will exist wherever the capitalist mode of production is dominant,...

...between civil society and the state is "a methodological one." The "bourgeois class," Gramsci says, "poses itself as an organism in continuous movement,...been transformed; the State has become an 'educator', etc."12 The state subsumes civil society in the ways that it appropriates economic-corporative activities,...

...all-embracing consumerism - in Antonio Gramsci's words, an increasingly powerful bourgeoisie offered itself as 'an organism in continuous movement, capable...society, assimilating it to its own cultural and economic level'.47 That illusion of a seamless social totality is of fundamental importance to an understanding...

...enlarge their class sphere 'technically' and ideologically: their conception was that of a closed caste. The bourgeois class poses itself as an organism in...been transformed; the State has become an 'educator', etc. (p. 260). (d) We are still on the terrain of the identification of State and government - an identification...

...argument a little later on. 57 As discussed by Ganri Viswanathan and Javed Majeed, among others. 58 "The bourgeois class poses itself as an organism in...assimilating it to its own cultural and economic level." Antonio Gramsci, Selectiuufrom the Prison Notebooks, trans, by Quintin Hoare and Geoffey Nowell-Smith...

...conceived of themselves as a closed caste; only the bourgeoisie encourages emulation, thinking itself 'capable of absorbing the entire society, assimilating it to its own cultural and economic level.'61 A measure of this change is provided by the Canadian Tory educator and Anglican bishopJohn...

...between an 'aristocratic' state governed by a 'closed caste' and a 'bourgeois' state which saw itself as 'capable of absorbing the entire society, assimilating it to its own cultural and economic level'.20 In schematic terms, the main differences are as follows: the Spanish American oligarchic...

...their class sphere "technically" and "ideologically": their conception was that of a closed caste. The bourgeois class poses itself as an organism in...been transformed; the state has become an "educator," etc. (SPN, p. 260)7 The State as educator means that now it exerts moral, intellectual, and cultural...

...enlarge their class sphere "technically" and ideologically: their conception was that of a closed caste. The bourgeois class poses itself as an organism in...assimilating it to its own cultural and economic level." Precisely what Gramsci distinguishes as the innovation brought about in the area of politics by the...

...pulpit, by gendered divisions of private and public space. The entrepreneurial middle class was a class 'in continuous movement, capable of absorbing the...assimilating it to its own cultural and economic level'. 2 Working through temperance unions, fraternal clubs, churches, and political parties, the middle class...