POLS 2200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Cultural Hegemony, Trilateral Commission, Crystal Eastman
3 Feb 2016
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Everything comes down to class struggle such as: religion, ideas, family, class. For an orthodox marxist: the economic system (class struggle) = structure. Goes beyond the marxist understanding, it relates to the power of. Economic forces play a hugely important role in determing the way things are in the world, although power of ideas underlines everything as well. Inspired by marx, but tried to go beyond marxism. Power of ideas of capitalism, mostly interested in dominant(hegemonic) ideas. Disagreed with marxists: believed he was wrong that economic factors play a role. Capitalism requires an ideological force = cultural hegemony. False consciousness (working class was tricked into seeing things that weren"t actually true): Else is hierarchal (that is the power of cultural hegemony. Can"t imagine other alternatives: louis althusser. Wrote that capitalism was maintained or reproduced by two. Rsa - repressive state apparatus: things that use force to keep order.
