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There really is something to be said for people not banging on about things they don't properly understand - even if it turns out they're right about the things they don't understand!
Thatcher encouraging C2s to buy their own council houses would be a good example of a policy that can be understood in terms of the concept of hegemony.
As a policy, it aimed at breaking the ties of working-class solidarity, & functioned to incorporate home owners within a neoliberal political project that stressed the importance of meritocracy, individual responsibility & autonomy. It was part of a (failed) hegemonic project.
It would surely be just as easy to see it as a genuine liberation, and not a ruse to deceive people about their subjugation.
One of the point that Hall and Jacques made was that there were genuinely liberatory aspects to these kinds of politics.
Stuart Hall, I imagine? But presumably still seeing it as an aspect of false consciousness, bad actors, etc.
Yes, Stuart Hall. Not really - it was a much more sophisticated (though ultimately flawed, in my view) attempt to get away from the old idea that the state apparatuses of capitalism just inculcated a false consciousness. You should take a look at the Marxism Today archive.
There was a cartoon somewhere of sociologists looking at plants and saying "How lovely, hegemonies" in about 1983. Much disapproved of by those of us who were Greek scholars.
- Yeah, Gramsci was in vogue back then. Less so now, I think.
I'm afraid my interests are much less fashionable. My finals specialities were the PreSocratics and Hume & my MA was mainly on Kant's ethical philosophy. My idea of a modern Continental philosopher is Frege.
Misrepresented in terms of that (nebulous) concept, I think, assuming you're talking in roughly the terms disciples of Gramsci do.
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