Political Science · Western Political Thought
UGC NET January 2025 Political Science
Who suggested that bourgeois assumptions and values needed to be overthrown by the establishment of a rival 'proletarian hegemony' and the 'manufacture of consent'?
AAnthony Giddens
BAntonio Gramsci ✓ Correct
CJohn Stuart Mill
DRam Manohar Lohia
Correct answer: (B) Antonio Gramsci — The thinker who urged the building of a rival proletarian hegemony and the manufacture of consent is Antonio Gramsci, so the answer is Antonio Gramsci.
Explanation
★The thinker who urged the building of a rival proletarian hegemony and the manufacture of consent is Antonio Gramsci, so the answer is Antonio Gramsci.
★He argued that the working class must do more than seize the State by force.
★It must first win the battle of ideas and replace the ruling class's worldview with its own.
★This rival hegemony is built patiently across schools, culture and everyday common sense.
★Only when the masses consent to proletarian leadership can a lasting new order take hold.
★The idea grows out of his distinction between domination by force and leadership by consent.
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