Hegemony sometimes fuses leadership with domination in Gramsci’s usage
Evidence
Moreover, Gramsci certainly does not always use “egemonia ” interchangeably with “direzione ” he sometimes uses it as the equivalent of “direzione ” plus “dominazione ”, e.g. in the last passage quoted in the preceding note. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1869
Categorization
Category: Definitional Content
- DEFINE: Disambiguates a core term of art: egemonia can mean leadership alone or leadership-plus-domination depending on context.
- QUESTION: Worth tracking which sense of hegemony the later Islamophobia readings deploy—leadership through consent, or consent plus coercion.
Related
- Gramsci’s dirigere terms resist single English translation equivalents (similarity 0.86)
- Hegemony is not the same thing as ideological domination (similarity 0.85)
- Domination via coercion alone has limited reach, while leadership requires winning consent. (similarity 0.84)
- Domination without leadership constitutes dictatorship without hegemony (similarity 0.82)
- Gramsci never separated hegemony and consent from force and domination (similarity 0.82)
- Hegemony can be achieved through dominance over the work process. (similarity 0.81)
- Hegemony requires economic leadership, not just compromise concessions (similarity 0.81)
- Hegemony is a precarious, ever-rebuilt dominance won mainly through consent plus coercion. (similarity 0.81)
- Hegemony is not equivalent to ideological domination. (similarity 0.81)
- Gramsci’s concept of ‘Dirigente’ links cultural hegemony to workers controlling the work process (similarity 0.81)
- Hegemony means intellectuals rule by consent while dictatorship rules by force (similarity 0.81)
- Gramsci’s hegemony opposes domination and also corporate economic phase (similarity 0.81)
- Hegemony as a term blocks reductive class-domination readings of political formations (similarity 0.80)
- Dominant classes rule by framing alternatives within their ideological limits, not by dictating minds. (similarity 0.80)
- Hegemony is a fragile, multi-front achievement won through consent, not domination (similarity 0.80)