Gramsci, the Relativity of the Integral State-Society, and the COVID-19 Interregnum

Gramscian scholars have engaged with Gramsci’s leitmotif (‘rhythm of thought’) and the stato integrale (integral state), a concept he introduced in Autumn 1930. This represents remarkable progress Marxist community. But what requires further attention is interconnection between an integral state totalitarian one, two three expressions state-society formations that Perry Anderson identified as antinomies. article argues fragile but hegemonic if it can be sustained. Otherwise, degenerate into state. The refigures ‘integral state’ state-society’. It exists relatively, depending on whether momentum’ or ‘totalitarian tendency’ prevails dynamic interaction radical Left, Far Right, those currents between. Identifying this relativity helps to formulate deeper understanding thought show how his legacy supports class struggle perspective COVID-19 interregnum.