Hegemony means tendential balance, not absolute class victory
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- Hegemony is a contestable, unstable equilibrium, never permanently secured. (similarity 0.94)
- Hegemony must be won before power is seized, not merely imposed by force after (similarity 0.94)
- Hegemony’s thesis absorbs opposition rather than being transcended by it (similarity 0.93)
- Hegemony is an unstable equilibrium requiring continuous re-securing. (similarity 0.93)
- Hegemony builds collective will by articulating differences, not erasing them (similarity 0.92)
- Hegemonic rule works through patient strategic struggle rather than frontal assault. (similarity 0.88)
- Schooling matters for hegemony because intellectuals depend on it economically (similarity 0.87)
- War of position is the only struggle form possible in stable class equilibrium. (similarity 0.85)
- Power generates the will of the power-holder rather than serving it (similarity 0.85)
- An ultimate power to decide generates its own norms and cannot be trusted (similarity 0.83)
- Ideological change happens through class struggle, not through ideas alone (similarity 0.83)
- A ruling party exercises hegemonic power without formal juridical rule (similarity 0.83)
- Totalitarian ideology becomes as untouchable as arithmetic to members. (similarity 0.83)
- Social stability must never come at the cost of necessary change or social justice (similarity 0.83)
- Dominant powers benefit from engineering their subjects’ inability to trust (similarity 0.83)