Hegemony as a term blocks reductive class-domination readings of political formations

Evidence

In a later formulation of the rationale for his terminology, Stuart explained that he “deliberately used the Gramscian term hegemony in order to foreclose any falling back on the mechanical notion that Thatcherism was merely another name for the exercise of the same old … class domination, by the same old familiar ruling class.” — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 973

Categorization

• DEFINE: Concisely states why Hall chose ‘hegemony’ over mechanical class domination — a key concept definition for understanding his whole project.
• XREF: Directly connects to Gramsci and to the reader’s aim of understanding Hall’s intellectual apparatus. — connects to: Early crisis discourse conflated domination with Gramscian hegemony — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 85