Cultural Studies and Poetry Reference library
V. B. Leitch
The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics (4 ed.)
...and values as universal, Gramsci distinguishes between coercive domination and negotiated leadership. The success of a controlling group’s ideology—which is relative, temporary, and challengeable—depends not only or even primarily on repressive political control through legal, administrative, military, and educational apparatuses, but on freely given civil consensus molded through the family, church, workplace, union, private school, media, and arts—i.e., through civil society. The leadership of the dominant group needs continual renewal and maintenance in...
