 Despite his claim that the lines between the two may be blurred, Gramsci rejects the state-worship that results from equating political society with civil society, as was done by the Jacobins and Fascists.He believes the proletariat's historical task is to create a "regulated society", where political society is diminished and civil society is expanded.He defines the "withering away of the state" as the full development of civil society's ability to regulate itself.