Why We Must Never Abandon The Truth

Sep 07, 2023

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“In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it.”
George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Book 1, Chapter VII

Antonio Gramsci's concept of hegemony explains how the ruling class, the bourgeoisie, maintained its power using the culture. According to him, cultural hegemony allowed the dominants to legitimize p…

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A guest post by

Dupont Lajoie

I am a French free thinker living in the UK. I chose my pen name in reference to the film directed by Yves Boisset in 1975, known in English as “The Common Man”, that depict an odious caricature of ordinary people, the “average Frenchman”.