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2 - The Gramscian Right, or Turning Gramsci on His Head

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Rita Abrahamsen
Affiliation:
University of Ottawa
Jean-François Drolet
Affiliation:
Queen Mary University of London
Michael C. Williams
Affiliation:
University of Ottawa
Srdjan Vucetic
Affiliation:
University of Ottawa
Karin Narita
Affiliation:
Queen Mary University of London
Alexandra Gheciu
Affiliation:
University of Ottawa
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The radical Right has turned to the Left’s iconic hero Antonio Gramsci for inspiration and guidance on how to launch a counter-hegemonic struggle against liberal cultural and political domination. Gramsci provides a powerful way to understand the globalisation of the Right, and many of Gramsci’s ideas, particularly cultural hegemony, historic blocs, and counter-hegemonic movements have been self-consciously and strategically appropriated by the Right. What radical Right intellectuals call ‘metapolitics’ provides them with a global sociological, ideological, and political framing, as well as a political economy with capitalism and class at its centre. It provides a strategic direction that seeks to mobilise social forces produced and marginalised by liberalism and globalisation by bringing them to self-consciousness, turning them from classes in themselves to politically aware and active classes for themselves. The global Right is not ideologically unified, nor does it have centralised controlling institutions. Instead, their counter-hegemonic ideologies enable diverse actors and agendas to find common cause despite their differences.

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World of the Right
Radical Conservatism and Global Order
, pp. 34 - 66
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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