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[...] It is not a mere tool of any particular class or interest, but is linked in different ways to them all, while enjoying some independence at the same time. It is the "factor of cohesion": its relative autonomy from any one class or class fraction is what makes hegemony in capitalism possible.

[...] Consider the following: even if it were true that capitalism and democracy have always gone together (and it is definitively not true), this would in no way justify the claim that they will go together until the end of time. Transhistorical claims originating in particular historical modes of…

Successful hegemonic projects necessitate both coercive capacity on the part of the governors and consent on the part of the governed. In other words, the state and the social relations it protects must be granted, at least by a significant part of the population, sufficient legitimacy. _Capitalism…

Ingham [...] says there are three main ways the state interacts with "the economy," and, although they are not so easily separated, the distinctions are useful. They are:

1. State provision/production of social peace;
2. State maintenance of capitalist social relations (often via "liberal democ…

This is not to say that the coercive part goes away. You might think, quite reasonably, that since coercion is always hovering in the background, the consent part is a bit of a joke: if you don't consent, you get coerced, meaning the consent is not all that consensual. At the level of the isolated …