Roger Simon And Stuart Hall The Power Of Hegemony

In most well developed societies there is always an issue with the unequal division of power with the wealthiest people having the most and the poorest having the less, which causes tension amongst the people in the society. The people with the most people can also be seen as the most dominant group, and one way they are successful at maintaining their power is through the use of hegemony. According to Merriam Webster Dictionary, hegemony is the “influence or control over another country, a group of people, etc”, in other words it is a system that is often used by the dominant group, used to spread their ideologies and maintain its control over another less dominant/powerful group. In the article “Gramsci’s Political Thought” by Roger Simon and Stuart Hall, the authors

LGBT community and war of movement is when the idea of change comes forward for example overthrowing the government. In addition there is the concept of caesarism and trasformismo, which caesarism is the overt clinging to power by those who are privileged /dominant and trasformismo is the process by which people who are going against are convinced to side with the hegemony in other words coalition, as described in our class.

We see how these concepts of hegemony are applied in Black Lives Matter Movement. The groups that comprise the hegemony are predominantly White-Americans and the Police Officers. The characteristics of their power is that they have legal authority which is why it is so difficult to receive justice for the people being harmed since the the justice system on the people who are causing the harm side. They maintain their power through coercion and consent by using using physical force which often lead to murders, (also the reason the Black Lives Matter movement was created to begin with). They use persuasion through many forms one of them being through words by stating that their lives were endangered or that the person they murdered was engaging in illegal activity.