Passive-revolution ideology reinforces hegemony by manufacturing expectation and hope
Evidence
What is important from the political and ideological point of view is that it is capable of creating—and indeed does create—a period of expectation and hope, especially in certain Italian social groups such as the great mass of urban and rural petit bourgeois. It thus reinforces the hegemonic system and the forces of military and civil coercion at the disposal of the traditional ruling classes. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 590
Categorization
Category: Causal Relationships
- DEFINE: Ties passive revolution directly to hegemony: the ideological effect is the mechanism.
- XREF: Core connection: how reformist ideology sustains dominance without open coercion — carries into Islamophobia readings on managed inclusion.
Related
- What matters politically is that passive revolution generates hope enough to reinforce hegemony. (similarity 0.92)
- Passive revolutions suppress some contradictions only to spawn new ones (similarity 0.80)
- Gramsci applies passive revolution to the fascist regime itself (similarity 0.79)
Broader Connections
- Capitalist production relations are reproduced socially and ideologically, not just economically
#complicates(0.75) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 628