Volume 02 R,W & RM

Ass_1. 2_CULTURAL HEGEMONY

Brief synopsis on Ruling Class and Ruling Ideas by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels (still draft) In “The Ruling Class and the Ruling Ideas Marx and Engels argue that what makes one class ruling class is the ruling ideas of its dominance. The ruling class controls the material production throughout mental production. The ruling class is empowering of being the producer, regulator and distributor of ruling ideas. Whenever the ruling ideas reveal to or benefits the general society’s interests then they became form of ideal – or the valid to the masses. Therefore every new class achieves domination not only by building over the top of each other (expended foundations) but surpassing common illusions of the previous. Marx and Engels introduced three predominant ways for creating an illusion that philosophy and ideology exist separately from politics. First, the ideas are separated from those who rule into empirical or material condition of how they appear. Secondly the ideas are given “mystical connection ” regarding them as “self – determined” and then they are personified into particular persona -"the thinker".

Synopsis on Subaltern Classes by Gramsky ---> (even not draft yet)
Make notes on how Gramsci developed Marx’s idea
Posit your own definition for cultural hegemony

Cultural Hegemony
Cultural hegemony reflects upon power, propaganda and brainwashing. Or the inevitable dominance of certain “structures” representing or manipulating certain ideologies/ philosophies into ideas which serve to them. The cultural hegemony works on unconscious, invisible level through constant media brainwashing where these ideas are passively accepted or taken for granted.

--->comments & feedback: to expand it and provide arguments to give example.