Hegemony requires a separation between civil and political society

Evidence

For Gentile history is entirely State history, while for Croce it is “ethical-political”. In other words, Croce seeks to maintain a distinction between civil society and political society, between hegemony and dictatorship; the great intellectuals exercise hegemony, which presupposes a certain collaboration, i.e. an active and voluntary (free) consent, i.e. a liberal, democratic regime. Gentile sees the economic-corporate phase as an ethical phase within the historical act: hegemony and dictatorship are indistinguishable, force and consent are simply equivalent; one cannot distinguish political society from civil society; only the State, and of course the State-as-government, exists, etc. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1006

Categorization

Category: Definitional Content

• DEFINE: Sharpens Gramsci’s core distinction: hegemony presupposes voluntary consent in civil society, set against dictatorship/force in political society.
• XREF: Connects directly to the reader’s later Islamophobia toolkit: aligns with Althusser’s ISA/RSA distinction and any theory of how ideological consent is manufactured.

Related

• Hegemony means intellectuals rule by consent while dictatorship rules by force (similarity 0.95)
• The State is an equilibrium between coercive political society and hegemonic civil society (similarity 0.86)
• Gramsci uses civil society to mean political and cultural hegemony, not Hegel’s economic sphere. (similarity 0.85)
• Gramsci never separated hegemony and consent from force and domination (similarity 0.84)
• The state is an equilibrium of coercion and consent run through civil society (similarity 0.83)
• State power fuses hegemonic consent with coercive enforcement (similarity 0.81)
• Hegemony is a fragile, multi-front achievement won through consent, not domination (similarity 0.81)
• Ruling-class unity is forged through the organic ties between State and civil society (similarity 0.80)
• The State is domination plus the active consent of the ruled (similarity 0.79)
• Every hegemonic relationship is necessarily an educational relationship (similarity 0.79)
• Hegemony is forged through cultural and ideological struggle, not just force. (similarity 0.79)
• The state actively educates and organizes the consent it governs by (similarity 0.79)
• Domination via coercion alone has limited reach, while leadership requires winning consent. (similarity 0.79)
• Hegemony works by winning consent backed by coercion, not by force alone. (similarity 0.79)
• Private associations form the hegemonic apparatus underlying the coercive State (similarity 0.79)