“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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