Antonio Gramsci's Cultural Hegemony: Explained

[@infinitafenix3153]

Very important points to be aware of, alienation works in a way that it even makes us feel guilty when we are not willing to put work at the centre of our lives.

[@masoodraja]

Thank you. Yes, you are absolutely right.

[@thecelt4807]

get rid of the guilt its liberating 👍❤

[@elvisiscat]

Thank you for introducing me to Antonio Gramsci.☮️❤️

[@masoodraja]

You are welcome!!

[@RekhaSingaporewali]

Thanks for helping me with my assignment Prof 🏆🙏🏻

[@masoodraja]

You are welcome.

[@Clydedonovn2424]

Oh my god i needed this! Thank you for posting! Discovered this channel today, subscribed immediately!

[@masoodraja]

Thank you and welcome.

[@1deenforme]

Thanks, Professor, for this introduction to Gramsci ❤ Please do a video on Carl Jung and his theories.

[@masoodraja]

Thank you so much. Yes, when I have some time to reread Jung, I will probably record something on his work.

[@sairarubab6135]

you're enlightening our minds❤ thank you..

[@masoodraja]

You are so welcome. Thank you.

[@OnAxisMusic]

This is wonderful. I would value a brief definition of cultural hegemony in this context.

[@masoodraja]

Thank you. Cultural hegemony, briefly stated, is the normalization and acceptance of the dominant elite worldview by the masses achieved through art, culture, education etc.

[@Thiscannotbetruebutitis]

Thank you for another thought provoking video. I think a lot about why women were sucked so easily into this neoliberal ideology that work makes you a more noble person. A significant portion of women work even proudly for a very precarious salary while putting their children in oftentimes highly questionable and underfunded daycare. I’m not saying women should stay at home in a patriarchal system. But the purchasing power of salaries in large portions of society slowly diminished over the last 50 years. So much so that women are forced to work because one salary is not enough anymore to sustain a family. There’s absolutely nothing noble about working for an unfair salary. This is very detrimental to the children as well.

[@masoodraja]

Thank you. I think the fault is with the unfair system of wages that even now exploits women worldwide, especially since both parents have to work to sustain life.

[@marcmccook9154]

LIGHT AND BRIGHT

[@masoodraja]

Thank you.

[@JacintaPalerm]

Thank you. Beautiful lecture

[@masoodraja]

You are welcome.

[@WilliamCarterII]

I've been waiting for this one. Hegemony and Revolution is on my summer reading list.

[@masoodraja]

You are welcome. Sorry, this is not as detailed as I would have liked. I will do better when I have access to my books.

[@oswinhaas]

Thank you very much for this nice little introduction to Gramsci's world of thought. How complex the conditions of the ever-changing capitalism are! This system that is tightening its grip on more and more parts of humanity! As interesting and enlightening as the analyses of Marx, Gramsci or Althusser may be, I am increasingly asking myself whether their study can really help us decisively to overcome what is probably the most comprehensive system of subjugation that has ever existed. At the same time, I am more and more coming to the conclusion that capitalism simply has to be abandoned from the bottom up, just as a wild circus boar can only overcome the circus if it simply runs away. In my opinion, the circus is a good metaphor for capitalism. If the circus wild boars demand more "leisure time" between circus performances, more "fun" in the cages, " equal payment" in relation to the other circus animals or even to the animal trainers and circus owners, if they demand more "welfare", better food for their work in the circus ring, etc., etc., then these are demands whose fulfillment does not change their circus situation at all. They remain in the circus! They even become more and more deeply entrenched in these hyper-alienating living conditions, in these slavery conditions! The very principle of "demand" (to whom? To the masters!) is already a sign of ongoing enslavement. Therefore, any kind of reformism, of "social democracy" is not at all conducive. Not even (to stick with the metaphor) if all the circus animals take over the circus and/or the domteur himself is a circus animal. It is and remains a circus. Period! An alienated and alienating system! Instead, people must leave the capitalist state and capitalism from the bottom up. According to the motto: Imagine it's capitalism and nobody goes there. This is not a revolution in the classical sense, which would mean a change of power elites and power structures. Rather, it means that people have to abandon the production AND consumption of GOODS (commodities), the money economy, trade, the hyper division of labor, the wage relationship, etc. They must come together and start to take their destiny back into their own hands as a CONCRETE OVERVIEWABLE COMMUNITY, with their concrete fellow human beings on the ground, with the natural conditions on the ground - just as circus wild boars that have escaped from the circus would re-establish themselves together in the forest as WILD BOARS. In order to be able to do this, it is completely irrelevant how the circus, how capitalism functions.

[@masoodraja]

Thank you for your thoughts.

[@zebrachess]

It's fun re-engaging with these topics after so many years. Bringing up Althusser and structural Marxism approaches, I found these to be a cul-de sac, but perhaps a needed one? The 'epistemological break' always seemed a case of 'physics envy' in a way - the false allure of scientism. Pleasure to find your videos. Best wishes.

[@masoodraja]

Thank you

[@thoufeeqaslam1971]

Professor, as a postcolonial thinker what your thoughts on decolonial attempts? And what is the difference between it and your method? Thank you❤

[@masoodraja]

Thank you. I believe decolonial thinking is very much part of postcolonial studies and I do not see them as separate.

[@thoufeeqaslam1971]

@@masoodraja I heard that postcolonial studies criticize colonialism on a peripheral level, while De colonialism critiques it on a base level… For example, even though Said criticizes Orientalism and his misrepresentation he finally resorts to the Western so-called values like humanism etc…. Is that right?

[@masoodraja]

@@thoufeeqaslam1971 Sorry. I have no opinion on such debates and I think Said’s work in itself is important to be read in its own right. I obviously am not interested in such debates.

[@thoufeeqaslam1971]

@@masoodraja ok. Thanks for the reply

[@southpaw786]

Thank you Dr Masood. When you at the beginning of this great presentation said ‘..people give their willing consent to the governing regime..,’ I found my self thinking of the Thatcherite idea of the ‘stakeholder society.’ I think this another way which the capitalist system tricks people into becoming minions, by passing their own innate selves, in the service of a fuzzy, nebulous narrative such as that of the ‘stakeholder society. Stakeholder in what? Because the same person who pushed this concept also told us that there’s ‘no such thing as society.’ In my opinion this trick’s net result has been to sever our direct connections to each other, and thus reality, and have all these connections, our life lines, become jacked into ta vampiric economic system, one that is predicated on war and exploitation, becoming mere variables in a differential equation that models a fantastic future as hallucinated by a kakistocracy from an equally hallucinated, imaginary past. In essence, our present has become a narrative aperture from which an imagined past goes through to an imagined future dreamed up by a clique of these narrative setters; a negation of the individual who is reduced to a life style junkie merely hopping from one trend to the next.

[@masoodraja]

Thank you. Yes, when we are isolated from each other it’s easier to incorporate us within the logic of power.

[@GRX387]

Doesn't Marx cover this in his theory of Base and Superstructure? Thank you for the informative lecture.

[@masoodraja]

Thank you. Yes, Marx does but his view is still architectural: Top/ bottom. And Marx sees the state as an oppressive/ dominant entity. Gramsci further explains the role of cultural mechanisms in establishing the state ideology.

[@thecelt4807]

cheers doc greets australia

[@masoodraja]

Thank you.

[@leststoner]

Thanks. I see this in how all the world leaders no matter where all agree on one goal; to get you a job, to put its people to work more. And the people cheer for it. SMH.

[@masoodraja]

Thank you. Yes, that’s pretty much how we internalize the system.

[@wolfgangamadeusmozart2476]

Pop music makes more money so pop hegemony took over rock and roll Marx kinda genius

[@masoodraja]

Thank you.