WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Fundamentally, hegemony is the power of the ruling class to convince other classes that their interests are the interests of all.

Detailed explanation-2: -Hegemony and Revolution In advanced Capitalist societies, the ruling class rely heavily on consent to maintain their rule. Gramsci agrees with Marx that they are able to maintain consent because they control institutions such as religion, the media and the education system.

Detailed explanation-3: -In Gramsci’s view, a class cannot dominate in modern conditions by merely advancing its own narrow economic interests; neither can it dominate purely through force and coercion. Rather, it must exert intellectual and moral leadership, and make alliances and compromises with a variety of forces.

Detailed explanation-4: -Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci developed the concept of hegemony to explain how the ruling class were able to control the working class without coercion or force. It is a similar idea to false class consciousness in that it explains how working-class individuals come to support the very system that exploits them.

Detailed explanation-5: -Cultural hegemony is most strongly manifested when those ruled by the dominant group come to believe that the economic and social conditions of their society are natural and inevitable, rather than created by people with a vested interest in particular social, economic, and political orders.