Hegemonic democracy permits molecular movement from led to leading 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. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1869

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines Gramsci’s distinctive sense of ‘democracy’ against the concept of hegemony — molecular absorption of led groups into the leading group.
• QUESTION: Worth carrying: what happens to groups that are structurally prevented from this molecular passage — a question the Islamophobia literature probes via racialized exclusion from the ‘national’ hegemonic bloc.
• XREF: connects to: Democracy exists where led groups can pass into the leading group — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1869