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According to Gramsci, ‘hegemony is primarily based on the organisation of consent’. Comment.

  • UPSC 2019
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  • Concept of Power, Hegemony, Ideology and Legitimacy

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The statement condenses Antonio Gramsci's answer, in the Prison Notebooks (1929–35), to why workers in the advanced West did not revolt. Two words carry it. Organisation means that consent is produced by institutions and people, not given naturally. Primarily means that coercion is held in reserve rather than abolished.

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