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What do we mean by ‘hegemony’?
The MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY outlines why the ideas of the ruling class are always the ruling ideas – and how to respond
Antonio Gramsci
[Eugenio Hansen]
JOHN McINALLY sees little chance of change at Westminster, and calls on the left to get serious about building a real alternative
With the centenary of the UN Slavery Convention upon us, ROGER McKENZIE argues much needs to be done to rid us of all its contemporary manifestations
SEVIM DAGDELEN says European Nato states are escalating ever closer to direct conflict with a nuclear power, and sacrificing welfare states built up over a century to finance it
CLAUDIA WEBBE says the horrific price British patients will pay for this NHS deal is now clear — and there’s time to get out of it, if MPs will only force the issue
KENNY MacASKILL says the lines between party, government and Civil Service in Scotland have been blurred and we need a thorough investigation into how
HEGEMONY commonly means the supremacy, authority, control, leadership, power or dominance by one social group — or state — over others, exercised through political, ideological, economic or military means.
In the late 18th and throughout the 19th century, industrial capitalists increasingly dominated other groups including the remnants of feudal landowners throughout Europe as well as over the working class.
Their growing economic power, the growth of towns (and in Britain especially, the depopulation of the countryside) was accompanied by political changes, reflected in turn in civil society, including religious practice and educational provision.
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