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Hegemony builds collective will by articulating differences, not erasing them

Hegemony builds collective will by articulating differences, not erasing them

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Hegemony builds collective will by articulating differences, not erasing them

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  • Hegemony must be won before power is seized, not merely imposed by force after (similarity 0.92)
  • Hegemony means tendential balance, not absolute class victory (similarity 0.92)
  • Hegemony is a contestable, unstable equilibrium, never permanently secured. (similarity 0.90)
  • Hegemony is an unstable equilibrium requiring continuous re-securing. (similarity 0.89)
  • Hegemonic rule works through patient strategic struggle rather than frontal assault. (similarity 0.88)
  • Ideological change happens through class struggle, not through ideas alone (similarity 0.85)
  • Power generates the will of the power-holder rather than serving it (similarity 0.84)
  • DiffĂ©rance produces meaning through a weave of differences, not binaries (similarity 0.84)
  • Historical change forces theorists to invent new, more concrete concepts (similarity 0.84)
  • Nietzsche reduced all ideology to a power struggle between illusions (similarity 0.83)
  • An ultimate power to decide generates its own norms and cannot be trusted (similarity 0.83)
  • Schooling matters for hegemony because intellectuals depend on it economically (similarity 0.83)
  • Ideology can be reconceived as a terrain of struggle, drawing on Gramsci and Laclau. (similarity 0.83)
  • Social stability must never come at the cost of necessary change or social justice (similarity 0.83)

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  • A shared dehumanizing logic links War on Terror crusades across hemispheres
  • A war of position rests on the whole industrial-organisational rear, not just trenches
  • An ultimate power to decide generates its own norms and cannot be trusted
  • Any single policy leaves most citizens feeling shortchanged
  • Big Gods and costly rituals coevolved to enhance cooperation and outcompete rivals
  • Black masses organized openly while intelligentsia pursued supplication
  • Communities rationally distrust outsiders for lack of knowledge, not just prejudice
  • Conquest by a nation either awakens conquered nationalism or degenerates into tyranny
  • Conquest by a nation-state provokes national consciousness and blocks empire building
  • Crises lasting decades reveal incurable structural contradictions that resisting forces work to mend.
  • Democracy can function on recognition by only a minority
  • DiffĂ©rance produces meaning through a weave of differences, not binaries
  • Doctrine of a people's divine origin erased internal differences among its members
  • Elite police rule requires admitting neutral masses to bolster itself
  • Foreign policy elites across camps share the aim of US hegemony
  • Globalization is a hegemonic process of conforming difference, not erasing it.
  • Hegel's master-slave dialectic drew on news of the Haitian Revolution
  • Hegemonic rule works through patient strategic struggle rather than frontal assault.
  • Hegemony is a contestable, unstable equilibrium, never permanently secured.
  • Hegemony is an unstable equilibrium requiring continuous re-securing.
  • Hegemony means tendential balance, not absolute class victory
  • Hegemony must be won before power is seized, not merely imposed by force after
  • Hegemony's thesis absorbs opposition rather than being transcended by it
  • Historical action requires welding dispersed wills into one cultural-social unity.
  • Ideological change happens through class struggle, not through ideas alone
  • Ideology can be reconceived as a terrain of struggle, drawing on Gramsci and Laclau.
  • Impartiality's false symmetry neutralizes opposition and suppresses class content
  • Nietzsche reduced all ideology to a power struggle between illusions
  • Power generates the will of the power-holder rather than serving it
  • Reflective thought arises only in crisis situations, yet caste breaks trigger none.
  • Schooling matters for hegemony because intellectuals depend on it economically
  • Social stability must never come at the cost of necessary change or social justice
  • The General Strike emerged spontaneously without a vanguard, from social contradictions.
  • The mob sought access to history through genius-idolatry and fame.
  • The same mechanism that unites society also drives its historical change
  • Totalitarian ideology becomes as untouchable as arithmetic to members.
  • Totalitarian movements' rank-and-file dissolved class divisions via shared fear
  • Totalitarianism adopted tribalism for its isolating value even against its own doctrines
  • War of position is the only struggle form possible in stable class equilibrium.