Jeremy Stangroom

Sorry, but this is a bit silly. The term "hegemonic" has a perfectly sensible and respectable usage within Marxist theory. And whether or not there is evidence of "hegemony" doesn't preclude its perfectly sensible use within a theoretical context. https://twitter.com/peterboghossian/status/978689602201444352 …

Ironically, the downfall of identity politics is precisely that it isn't a hegemonic project (in the sense articulated by Stuart Hall & Martin Jacques in a series of articles in Marxism Today in 1979-1985ish).

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.

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.