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Linkage between Power and Hegemony.

  • UPSC 2024
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  • Concept of Power, Hegemony, Ideology and Legitimacy

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Power is the capacity to shape others' conduct, even against their resistance. Hegemony, in Antonio Gramsci's Prison Notebooks (1929–35), is moral and intellectual leadership: one class's worldview becomes the common sense of the classes it rules. The two are linked as genus and species. Hegemony is power at its most economical and most durable.

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