Gramsci, Organization, Crisis w/ Michael Denning
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Gramsci's Theory of Hegemony
Michael Denning is a professor in the American Studies program at Yale University. Gramsci was drawing on Lenin's concept of hegemony, which Lenin had used to describe how communists could exercise power in a country where industrial workers were only a very small minority. How does this theory of hegemony taking off from Lenin allow us to both understand what sort of social forces dominate at present and also what sort of politics might be capable of overthrowing and supplanting them?
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