Commentary on Cultural Hegemony
Antonio Gramsci, Jackson Lears, and theories of social dominance
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Hello to anyone still around reading my work. Thanks for being here and for supporting me. I haven’t published on Medium in two months, the longest hiatus I’ve taken since I started writing here nearly 4 years ago!
As I mentioned earlier this year, I’ve been upgrading my undergraduate degree in order to pursue a post-graduate education. I’ve been taking Writing and Rhetoric courses, and I am absolutely loving them.
That said, my academic reading and writing keeps me quite busy, so I haven’t had much (any) time to produce my usual content. This article (as well as part two, which I will publish soon) is definitely not about directly neurodiversity and parenting.
That said, if you’re interested in learning about the history, philosophies, and theories which attempt to explain why things are the way they are (and I hope you are interested in those things, because they are oh, so important!), then you may enjoy this exploration of cultural hegemony.
Cultural hegemony and theories of domination
In 1848, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels published The Communist Manifesto, in which they predicted…
