Early crisis discourse conflated domination with Gramscian hegemony

Evidence

The crisis revealed the strategy’s unsustainable character, leading to what can be denoted as the “crisis of neoliberalism” … No distinction is made between hegemony and domination as in approaches of Gramscian inspiration. — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 85

Categorization

  • XREF: connects to: Hegemony as a term blocks reductive class-domination readings of political formations — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 973; Hegemony sometimes fuses leadership with domination in Gramsci’s usage; Early domination stemmed from personal superiority absent pre-existing social organization — Georg Simmel, The Sociology of Georg Simmel, 7189

Broader Connections