Theorist of Hegemony
Antonio Gramsci
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An Italian Marxist and politician imprisoned by Mussolini’s regime, whose prison notebooks explained how a ruling group keeps power by winning consent, through ideas that come to seem like common sense, and not only by force.
Key work: Prison Notebooks (written 1929–1935)
“All men are intellectuals, one could therefore say: but not all men have in society the function of intellectuals.”
Key ideas, in brief (in our words)
Power lasts longest when it feels like common sense.
Culture is a field where politics is won and lost.
Every person thinks, though not everyone is given the role of thinker.
Read more: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
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Consent, Not Force
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