Hegemonic democracy depends on upward mobility of the led groups

Evidence

In the hegemonic system, there exists democracy between the ‘leading’ group and the groups which are ‘led’, in so far as the development of the economy and thus the legislation which expresses such development favour the (molecular) passage from the ‘led’ groups to the ‘leading’ group. In the Roman Empire there was an imperial-territorial democracy in the concession of citizenship to the conquered peoples, etc. There could be no democracy under feudalism, because of the constitution of the closed groups [i.e. estates, corporations, etc.] etc. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1869

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

• XREF: The mobility-permitting account of hegemonic democracy contrasts with closed-estate feudalism—a mechanism relevant to how exclusionary social orders withhold incorporation of the Other.

Related

• Hegemonic democracy permits molecular movement from led to leading groups (similarity 0.90)
• Democracy exists where led groups can pass into the leading group (similarity 0.90)