What is Hegemony? - Antonio Gramsci - The Prison Notebooks

An overview of Italian Communist Antonio Gramsci's contribution to the theory of ideology. Especially, the concept of hegemony as described in the Prison Notebooks.
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[ESLDiploma]

Thank you so much for explaining this so clearly, the difference between Marx's economic materialist theory and Gramsci's theory of hegemony by consent. This is so difficult to grasp but you made it incredibly easy to follow.

[TheSaneInternational-SNI]

Wow! How did u manage to put everything perfectly in just 7 mins? Simply amazing. Liked it a lot. Thnx

[amellirizarry]

Gramsci’s concept of Hegemony really reminds me of Chomsky’s Manufactured Consent

[marcanthonymiranda]

Great video I was told to look into Gramsci and you gave me a clearer picture of his works.

[kevintewey]

This is why I always start with the short videos to understand Theory looks like I found a great one

[rajyavishekpradhan]

Lucid explanation. Thank you! Very underrated channel.

[sasank]

Keep going are the most underrated channels in youtube

[compassionatepeercounseling]

Great video, thank you. This helped me understand the importance of continuing to challenge ideas taken for granted in our society.

[BoganTheLastard]

This reminds me of observations Chomsky made about how consent is manufactured by constant propogandizing

[eWorm]

He remained in prison for 11 years not 20

[ninirema]

Dear great thinker
very sweet good day and super lecture.

[beeinthehive]

It isn't voluntarily if we're given a choice between doing what they say and starving, homeless in the streets. That's an act of violence and coercion. It's as if you're trapped in a house and the owner says you must obey him or he locks you in the basement and starves you.

[NathanDudani]

I'd say his ideas of countering cultural hegemony are among the--if not the--most subversive philosophic idea(s) of the past 100 years

[wiesoimmerich]

Thanks for this introduction to the concept! I needed some clarification, and you provided it :)

[James-eqst]

Fascinating cultural anthropology study!...thank you

[luckygirl]

thanks for your hard work it realy helped me alot the understand his ideolgy and hegemony.

[raymonddonahue]

Looking at the comments it doesn't seem as though anyone really understands even though it was presented in 7 min.
That's the real problem. This could be entitled Hegemony for Dummies. If I learned this as a new concept and thought for more
that 5 min on the problems of America and Western Civ., I would be SHOCKED at what has happened to my country. We have accepted it though. Gramsci knew how to topple Western Civ. from within and has been successful.

[AgentHobbes]

Thank you for this, really a stellar video.

[misscraycray]

Thank you so much for this well prepped video!

[musaabmomani]

I've had a trouble with the term (Consent) since i have first discovered Gramsci's thoughts.
when you say consent, it gives you this impression of a clear agreement.
for example, i consent upon the law of "whatever".
A law in this case, needs to be written, a clear type of agreements.
consenting needs to have a clear content. but in this case it has never been clear, but on the contrary it has been always unclear, hidden and derived constantly by using ideologies and propaganda and etc..
i would use the word "comminute" over "consent".
a child of the working class does not have a "consenting ability" but he rather "comminute" with whatever surrounds him.
as a contrast,
we do not consent upon power, but we rather find ourselves attached to the social machinery. in such case the "normal" social condition is the "consenting" condition.
Normal here, means the only enlightened "episteme", that our consciousness can spot and focus on.
so a revolution in this context means, discovering a new episteme that can advocate change, hopes and better lives.
as an ending,
Gramsci's thoughts are not "wrong" for me, but they give this deluded expression of what is going on psychologically inside the oppressed.