Civil society is understood by Gramsci to comprise all social relations and organizations that do not participate either in the economic reproduction of society or the life of the State. Thus, civil society is the 'private' institutions of a given society, including religious organizations, unions and political parties, cultural institutions and in general any freely formed association of citizens.Gramsci conceives of civil society as a social terrain on which rivalries and struggles of a cultural and ideological nature are played out and decided among social groups.
As opposed to civil society, which is an open field for debate and the exercise of persuasion, political society is the domain of coercion, constraint, naked domination and the exercise of military, police and juridical-admin... (查看原文)
... or disappearance of political society.
The expression 'regulated society' might suggest the centrality of a rule or regulation, but we can see here that Gramsci intends it to be a rule consented to by the political community.
It thus converges with the notion of 'free organisation' as the central principle of communism.
In a different register, we might conclude, it is at the stage at which education mutates into 'self-education' that external constraints to individual and collective development begin the disappear. (查看原文)
1 有用 Evan Wu 2025-04-24 10:45:36 湖北
对于葛兰西的思想体系有着精简有力的介绍，旁征博引，并配有极其精彩而较为简短的对其思想的应用（分析20世纪80年代英法新自由主义霸权非霸权的差异）
0 有用 Nemo 2025-04-20 23:00:32 河南
感谢“星从Konstellation”倾情翻译！