{"pk":41114,"title":"Hegemony, Democracy, and Passive Revolution in Gramsci's \nPrison Notebooks","subtitle":null,"abstract":"What is the relationship between democracy and hegemony in Gramsci's \nPrison Notebooks\n? Salvadori and Galli della Loggia argue that hegemony is best understood as a theory of dictatorship and is therefore incompatible with democracy. Vacca argues that  hegemony is inconceivable in the absence of democracy. I bridge these divergent readings by making two arguments. First, hegemony is a form of rationalized intellectual and moral leadership, and therefore depends on liberal democratic institutions. Second, hegemony is established through revolution. Gramsci thus paradoxically combines a deep appreciation for liberal democracy with a basically Leninist conception of politics.","language":"en","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"Gramsci"},{"word":"hegemony"},{"word":"Social Theory"},{"word":"sociology"},{"word":"Science, Technology and Society"}],"section":"Articles","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5x48f0mz","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Dylan","middle_name":"J.","last_name":"Riley","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of California - Berkeley","department":"None"}],"date_submitted":"2011-02-24T09:49:09-08:00","date_accepted":"2011-02-24T09:49:09-08:00","date_published":"2011-12-16T00:00:00-08:00","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cisj/article/41114/galley/30754/download/"}]}