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“The modern state abolishes many autonomies of the subaltern classes, they abolishes the state as a federation of classes; but certain forms of the internal life of the subaltern classes are reborn as party, trade union, cultural association. The modern #dictatorship abolishes these forms of class autonomy as well, and it tries hard to incorporate them into the activity of the state: in other words, the centralization of the whole life of the nation in the hands of the ruling class becomes frenetic and all consuming.”
— Antonio #Gramsci, First Draft of Notebook 25, Prison Notebooks
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