Antonio Gamsci: Four Conceptions of the State

Sociology 2R3: Theories of Class and Stratification; Carl Cuneo's Notes


  1. State Opposed to Civil Society (superstructure/structure)
  2. State as Outer Protective Shell of Civil Society
  3. State as Identical to Civil Society
  4. State as Sum of Political Society and Civil Society

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