Gramsci never separated hegemony and consent from force and domination
Evidence
Clearly this thesis is open to reformist interpretations, involving an under-estimate of the problem of the State in revolutionary strategy. But there is little justification for imputing any such illusion to Gramsci himself. The fact that, more than any other great revolutionary Marxist thinker, he concerned himself with the sphere of “civil society” and of “hegemony”, in his prison writings, cannot be taken to indicate a neglect of the moment of political society, of force, of domination. On the contrary, his entire record shows that this was not the case, and that his constant preoccupation was to avoid any undialectical separation of “the ethical-political aspect of politics or theory of hegemony and consent” from “the aspect of force and economics”. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 826
Categorization
Category: Connection Points
- XREF: Directly relevant to the scaffold: hegemony must be paired with the moment of force/domination, which the Islamophobia readings will need to avoid an over-soft reading of consent-based power.
Related
- Hegemony requires a separation between civil and political society (similarity 0.84)
- Gramsci’s hegemony concept treats power as non-coercive and culture-based, not class-direct (similarity 0.84)
- Hegemony means intellectuals rule by consent while dictatorship rules by force (similarity 0.83)
- Hegemony sometimes fuses leadership with domination in Gramsci’s usage (similarity 0.82)
- Gramsci’s hegemony opposes domination and also corporate economic phase (similarity 0.82)
- Postwar hegemony had to be rebuilt around masses newly stirred into chaotic movement. (similarity 0.82)
- Gramsci designed hegemony as a bulwark against economic reductionism. (similarity 0.81)
- Hegemony works by winning consent backed by coercion, not by force alone. (similarity 0.81)
- Gramsci broke from Bordiga’s immobilism while keeping his own critique of Comintern (similarity 0.80)
- Machiavelli’s political theory centers on securing permanent consent through the art of governing. (similarity 0.80)
- Hegemony is a precarious, ever-rebuilt dominance won mainly through consent plus coercion. (similarity 0.80)
- Gramsci’s hegemony concept rejects economic reductionism and reframes power non-coercively. (similarity 0.80)
- Hegemony requires economic leadership, not just compromise concessions (similarity 0.80)
- Hegemony is a fragile, multi-front achievement won through consent, not domination (similarity 0.80)
- Domination via coercion alone has limited reach, while leadership requires winning consent. (similarity 0.80)