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Jan 13, 2023 · He employed the concept “hegemony” to describe a process of “intellectual and moral leadership” that embedded a ruling class across society. He rejected the economic determinism of classical Marxism in favor of a nuanced political analysis attuned to contingent variation in historical circumstance.
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Aug 21, 2023 · Dissatisfied with the failures of the revolution in European countries and disillusioned with orthodox Marxists at the time, Antonio Gramsci sought to explain why the revolution wasn’t taking place in advanced capitalist countries and how we could make it happen.
The Marxist intellectual Antonio Gramsci (1891–1937) developed cultural hegemony to explain the social-control structures of society, arguing that the working-class intelligentsia must generate a working-class ideology to counter the worldview (cultural hegemony) of the ruling class.
- Cultural Hegemony According to Antonio Gramsci
- The Cultural Power of Ideology
- The Political Power of Common Sense
The Italian philosopher Antonio Gramsci developed the concept of cultural hegemony out of Karl Marx’s theory that the dominant ideology of society reflects the beliefs and interests of the ruling class. Gramsci argued that consent to the rule of the dominant group is achieved by the spread of ideologies—beliefs, assumptions, and values—through soci...
Gramsci realized that there was more to the dominance of capitalism than the class structure and its exploitation of workers. Marx had recognized the important role that ideology played in reproducing the economic system and the social structure that supported it, but Gramsci believed that Marx had not given enough credit to the power of ideology. ...
In “The Study of Philosophy,” Gramsci discussed the role of “common sense”—dominant ideas about society and our place in it—in producing cultural hegemony. For example, the idea of “pulling oneself up by the bootstraps,”—the idea that one can succeed economically if one just tries hard enough—is a form of "common sense" that has flourished under ca...
In this chapter it is my intention: (a) to elucidate the various forms and functions of the concept, (b) to specify how it links up with Gramsci's theory of the revolutionary process, and (c) to show in what respects ‘hegemony’ represented an innovation within the Marxist tradition.
This article attempts to single out key sources, avoiding any unilateral attribution, for the concept of hegemony as developed by Antonio Gramsci throughout the entire course of his prison...
GRAMSCI AND THE THEORY OF HEGEMONY BY THOMAS R. BATES In November 1926 the General Secretary of the Italian Communist Party, Antonio Gramsci, was arrested and subsequently sentenced to twenty years in prison by the Fascist State. His long and miserable confinement, which re-