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Gramsci’s Cultural Hegemony and Marx’s Base-Superstructure

Antonio Gramsci extended [Marx, 1867] thesis that political power derives from economic structure into a theory of cultural hegemony— the way ruling-class ideology becomes «common sense» through schools, media, and church [Hall, 1986]. Reading Gramsci alongside [Lukács, 1923] reframes the base/superstructure metaphor as a dialectic, not a hierarchy.

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