Leadership Groups

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In `Gramsci's Relevance for the Study of Race and Ethnicity` Stuart Hall lays out his interpretation of Gramsci's writings, then uses Gramsci's theorizations to analyize how we think about race and racism.

Leadership Groups

Gramsci's ideas of hegemonic leadership groups also apply to revolutionary leadership. In order for revolution against the bourgeois state and capitalism, the leading revolutionary class has to create alliances with different groups. What does this mean?

1. The decisive social or political force in a crisis will not be homogenous but will instead have a complex social and political composition.

2. The composition will not be automatically united, but will necessiatate a system of alliances between groups.

3. While the composition will have roots in class divisions, the actual forms of struggle wil have a larger social character. (i.e. not just the proletariat vs. the ruling class, other things like ethnicity or nationality will divide and structure those two seemingly homogenous groups.