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  1. The part of a society or culture outside the
  2. government and state-run institutions. For
  3. Marx and Hegel, civil society was that part
  4. of society where self-interest and
  5. materialism were rampant, although Adam Smith
  6. believed that enlightened self-interest would
  7. promote the general good. Classical writers
  8. and earlier political theorists such as John
  9. Locke used the term to describe the whole of
  10. a civilized society.
  11.