Hegemony explains class domination without reducing it to narrow class-interest exposure.

Evidence

Once again, in Gramsci’s concept of “hegemony,” for example, we discover the beginnings of a way of conceptualizing how classes, constituted at the fundamental level of production relations, come to provide the basis of the social authority, the political sway and cultural domination of a “class alliance on behalf of capital,” without reducing the idea to what Marx once called the “dirty-Jewish” question of class interest, narrowly conceived. This latter form of economic reductionism, Gramsci argues, conceives of history as “a continuous march é de dupes , a competition in conjuring and sleight of hand. ‘Critical’ activity [i.e., Marxism] is reduced to the exposure of swindles, to creating scandals, and to prying into the pockets of public figures” (Prison Notebooks ). Which of us cannot quickly recall that brand of Marxism of exposure? — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 527

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines ‘hegemony’ as the escape from economic reductionism in explaining how class alliances rule.
• DEEPTHINKING: Gramsci’s critique of ‘Marxism of exposure’ is a lasting paradigm for any move from interest-reductionism to cultural power analysis; resists one-sentence summary.
• SEED: Essay angle: what survives of the ‘Marxism of exposure’ in modern conspiracy-style political journalism, reading present-day exposé culture through Gramsci’s warning.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 527
• XREF: connects to: Hegemony is not equivalent to ideological domination.; Dominance is maintained through unstable equilibria that concede some subordinate interests; Dominant culture operates as an active process of incorporation, not static ideology (+19 more)

Broader Connections

• Hegemony explains class rule as cultural and political sway, not just economic interest #corroborates (0.85)
• Ideological inflections like wage bargaining maintain capitalist domination, not merely describe it. #exemplifies (0.80)
• Ideological forms like wages serve to maintain capitalist domination #exemplifies (0.80) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 903
• Hegemony explains Thatcherism’s persistence beyond mere class domination #exemplifies (0.75)
• Dominant ideology recruits the dominated by neutralizing rival ideologies’ antagonism #expands (0.70)
• Subordinate class institutions can be absorbed to contain rather than end opposition. #expands (0.70)
• Cultural domination shapes working-class perception without fully occupying the mind #expands (0.65)
• Class equilibrium creates the appearance of a neutral, autonomous state #expands (0.60)
• Impartiality’s false symmetry neutralizes opposition and suppresses class content #expands (0.60)