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A List of 50 Top Pundits Illustrates Conservative Hegemony In Action
http://www.openleft.com/ showDiary.do?diaryId=5685
For some time now, I've been writing about the Gramscian concept of "hegemony" and a "war of position"/"culture war" to control the cultural institutions that in turn shape our "common sense" understanding of things. It's my contention that for the 30-40 years, extreme cultural conservatives have been waging a one-sided culture war of precisely this sort-a culture war to control cultural institutions. And in response, moderates, liberals, even progrerssives have basically been asleep at the switch.
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Mister, you're a better man than I
http://sideshow.me.uk/smay08.htm#05111304Shadow Elites And Religion--Part 1 - Paul Rosenberg on the contradictions of the rationalizers' "faith". Also on conservative hegemony in action. (I just don't know what to make of all the people trying to find ways to feel good about the way
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