Hegemony is achieved by more than mere class dominance

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 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Cultural hegemony operates as a shifting balance of power, never pure victory or domination; Hegemonic leadership is exercised by a historic bloc, not a whole class — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2: Identity…, 106; Hegemony means tendential balance, not absolute class victory (+10 more)

Related

• A class becomes hegemonic when its elite transcends narrow corporate interests (similarity 0.95)
• Hegemony explains class domination without reducing it to narrow class-interest exposure. (similarity 0.92)
• Hegemony explains class rule as cultural and political sway, not just economic interest (similarity 0.92)
• Hegemony requires economic leadership, not just compromise concessions (similarity 0.90)
• Dominance is maintained through unstable equilibria that concede some subordinate interests (similarity 0.90)
• Hegemony is not equivalent to ideological domination. (similarity 0.90)
• Cultural domination has real effects without being all-powerful or all-inclusive (similarity 0.88)
• Dominant classes survive crises by out-maneuvering subordinate groups (similarity 0.88)
• Hegemony is coercion combined with consent, won and perpetually reconstructed through class struggle. (similarity 0.88)
• Hegemony is a precarious, ever-rebuilt dominance won mainly through consent plus coercion. (similarity 0.87)
• Hegemony must be perpetually won and can be lost. (similarity 0.86)
• Hegemonic leadership is exercised by a historic bloc, not a whole class (similarity 0.86)
• Hegemony combines coercion with actively won consent, with consent in the lead (similarity 0.85)
• Gramsci’s hegemony concept treats power as non-coercive and culture-based, not class-direct (similarity 0.85)
• Hegemony is an unstable equilibrium that dominant forces must continually resecure (similarity 0.85)

Broader Connections

• Hegemony explains class rule as cultural and political sway, not just economic interest #expands (0.88)
• Hegemony explains class domination without reducing it to narrow class-interest exposure. #expands (0.85) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 527
• Hegemony is coercion combined with consent, won and perpetually reconstructed through class struggle. #expands (0.82)