As a theory, Cultural Hegemony has deeply influenced Eurocommunism, the social sciences, and activist politics. In the social sciences, its theoretic application in examining major discourses (e.g. those posited by Michel Foucault) is an important aspect of anthropology, political science, sociology, and cultural studies; moreover, in education the concepts of cultural hegemony led to the development of critical pedagogy and the technique of communist ideological subversion of Western democracies.
Good article, but “evil minority seeking to undermine the status quo” equally applies to the wealthy in America. For some reason, it is OK for Wall Street types to seek to put the screws to everyone, but wrong for the everyone elses to fightback.
There is class warfare. The rich guys started it. The rich guys are winning. Here’s a very well known rich guy who admits it:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/26/business/yourmoney/26every.html?_r=1
parsy, who says if the rich would quit stealing, and get real jobs, maybe we wouldn’t be where we are
Gramscis “long march through the institutions” has been wildly successful, as anyone who has been paying attention surely knows. Until this influence has been removed from our culture, we are lost.
Bump for later read.