Antonio Gramsci

Power rests on cultural hegemony, not just force.

Marxism1891 – 1937 ItalyMarxist philosopherPolitical theoristJournalistCo-founder of the Communist Party of Italy

Inspirations

Nicolas Machiavel the "Centaur" (force and consent) and the "Modern Prince", which he identifies with the party

Karl Marx historical materialism, which he wants to free from fatalism

Benedetto Crocehis great interlocutor: he devotes notebook 10 to him, to adopt and go beyond him

critic

Vladimir Léninethe "united front" and the move from a war of manoeuvre to a war of position

Heirs

Louis Althusserthe "ideological state apparatuses", which take up and displace Gramsci's civil society

Ernesto Laclau et Chantal MouffeHegemony and Socialist Strategy (1985), which makes hegemony the centre of politics

Stuart HallBritish cultural studies

Edward Saidcultural hegemony applied to the Orient as imagined by the West

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Closest

Pierre Kropotkine Mutual aid, as much as struggle, is a factor of evolution: sociability lies at the root of morality.

Michael Martin The arguments for God's existence fail, and there are good reasons not to believe.

J. L. Schellenberg If a perfectly loving God existed, no one would be a non-believer in good faith.

Karl Marx History is the history of class struggles.

Furthest

Martin Luther King Jr. Minister and leader of the civil rights movement: he defends nonviolent disobedience to unjust laws, openly and accepting the penalty.

Martin Luther Before God, the human will is not free: without grace it wills evil; with grace it wills the good; but it never chooses its master. It is "bound".