Can in fact become oppressor classes. But overall, the masses remain oppressed, and extract concessions that make things less shitty.
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It seems to me that if we can all agree that hegemony itself is bad, we all have an interest in defeating hegemony because almost all of us
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Have experienced oppression in one way or another. That seems to me to be the way forward for everyone, and the next advance for democracy.
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Democracy makes the counter-hegemonic state possible by ensuring everyone has power over the state. Otherwise, of course, the state...
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Which nominally ensures hegemonies do not form, itself has to be given hegemonic power over society to create said assurances...
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And so of course the state will eventually exercise its power against some class of people.
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But aha! If the INSTITUTIONS that comprise the state are themselves counter-hegemonic, it is always in each local actor's interest...
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Not to establish hegemony, because the establishment of hegemony requires the dissolution of order imposed by the state.
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And the order imposed by the state is itself counter-hegemonic. If the state always stands against hegemony, as soon as hegemony forms
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The state balances the scales. I'm not sure of the mechanics of how such a counter-hegemonic state can be achieved...
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(I have some ideas, which are at present sadly unfeasible)
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But it does seem to me to be fundamentally a smart, timely thing to fight for: democracy that institutionally sets itself against hegemony.
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And I think that can be achieved in my lifetime. (Of course, all young revolutionaries think the Revolution will happen in their lifetimes.)
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