The Long
Insurgency

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Hegemony

Concept or doctrine in the archive

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Chronology

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  1. Pfister, Critique for What? (2016), Genovese discussion
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Working definition from the source

Gramsci uses hegemony for organized social and political leadership that joins consent, prestige, intellectual direction, and the capacity for coercion. It is not reducible to persuasion alone.

Originating text

Selections from the Prison Notebooks, especially pp. 12, 57-58, 170, 235-239, and 275-276

Role in the Long Insurgency

This concept is part of the opening intellectual architecture. Later transmission, adoption, and implementation must be established through separate relationship evidence.

Current limits

The prison notebooks are fragmentary and Gramsci's terminology develops across different notes. Avoid reducing the concept to a slogan.

Chronology repair

Explicitly present in the 1926 Southern Question as proletarian leadership and dominance through alliances and consent; broadened across the prison notebooks.

Full locators, draft-status cautions, disputes, and gaps: Research Memo: Gramsci Concept, Publication, and Reception Chronology.