Hegemony means the ideological predominance of the dominant classes in civil society over the subordinate,..., the acceptance by the ruled of a “conception of the world” which belongs to the rulers. (...) The problem for Gramsci then is to understand how the ruling class has managed to win the consent of the subordinate classes in this way; and then, to see how the latter will manage to overthrow the old order and bring about a new one of universal freedom.
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