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Is Gramsci a theoretician of super-structures? Give reasons in support of your answer.

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  • Concept of Power, Hegemony, Ideology and Legitimacy

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In the 1859 Preface to A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy, Karl Marx called the economic structure the real foundation on which a legal and political superstructure rises. Antonio Gramsci (1891–1937) kept that architecture but moved the decisive struggle upstairs. He is a theoretician of the superstructures in emphasis, not in the sense…

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