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Cultural Hegemony

Culture, ideology, education, intellectuals, and hegemony.

文化霸权意识形态culturehegemonyideology弗莱雷Freire批判教育学critical pedagogy

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64Related works
4Study stages
8Related authors
Covered study stages

05 Imperialism, Colonial Systems, and World Revolution; 06 Organization, Mass Work, and Lawful Public Practice; 07 Culture, Ideology, and Publishing Fronts; 08 Internationalist Collaboration and Contemporary Tasks

Related authors

V. I. Lenin, Mao Zedong, Antonio Gramsci, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Rosa Luxemburg, IMRA Editorial Collective, Georg Lukács, Paulo Freire

Reading Path

From questions to texts, station by station

Start with the core questions, then follow the entry, core, and advanced readings into concrete book and article pages.

Core Questions

  1. Why does rule rely not only on coercion but also common sense, education, media, and cultural institutions?

  2. How do organic intellectuals, publications, and public education participate in long-term positional work?

  3. How does ideology reproduce social relations and form subjects?

Entry Reading

4 texts
1941 · Mao ZedongFull textReform Our StudyRectification text stressing seeking truth from facts and investigation.1942 · Mao ZedongFull textOppose Stereotyped Party WritingCritiques empty dogmatic writing and stresses language for the masses.1942 · Mao ZedongFull textTalks at the Yenan Forum on Literature and ArtMajor text on art, class standpoint, the masses, and political direction.1929-1935 · Antonio GramsciFull textPrison NotebooksCore notebooks on hegemony, state, intellectuals, common sense, and historic bloc.

Core Reading

6 texts
1968 / 2018 · Paulo FreireGuidePedagogy of the Oppressed: 50th Anniversary EditionA major critical-pedagogy work on oppression, dialogue, conscientization, and liberatory education.1926-1937 · Antonio GramsciFull textLetters from PrisonShows Gramsci's prison reflections on ethics, education, politics, and thought.2026 · IMRA Editorial CollectiveFull textWorld Revolution and the Colonial Question: Study GuideAn editorial study guide linking national liberation, world-system analysis, and socialist orientation.2026 · IMRA Editorial CollectiveFull textMasses, Party, and Leaders: Study GuideFrames mass work, study groups, and documentation through public, lawful, nonviolent methods.1923 · Georg LukácsFull textHistory and Class ConsciousnessAn advanced text on reification, totality, and class consciousness.1970 · Louis AlthusserFull textIdeology and Ideological State ApparatusesFor comparing the state, school, family, media, and ideological reproduction.

Advanced Reading

5 texts
1905 · V. I. LeninFull textParty Organization and Party LiteratureDiscusses party spirit, publishing work, and organizational responsibility.1921 · V. I. LeninFull textThe New Economic Policy and the Tasks of the Political Education DepartmentsDiscusses political education and mass work under the NEP.1937 · Mao ZedongFull textCombat LiberalismCritiques liberalism and lack of principle in organizational life.1942 · Mao ZedongFull textRectify the Party's Style of WorkRectification against subjectivism, sectarianism, and stereotyped party writing.1944 · Mao ZedongFull textServe the PeopleCondensed statement of people-centered ethics and organizational commitment.

Common Misreadings

  • Reducing cultural hegemony to propaganda technique.
  • Treating intellectuals as credentialed individuals rather than social functions.
  • Separating cultural questions from class organization and material institutions.