Question

In Marxist thought, the Concept of Hegemony is closely associated with whom among the following ?
1. F. Engels
2. Rosa Luxemburg
3. Gramsci
4. Mao-Tse-Tung

Answer 1

Correct Answer - Option 3 : Gramsci

The correct answer is Gramsci.

 

• Italian Communist thinker, activist, and political leader Antonio Gramsci is associated with the concept of hegemony.
• Hegemony was most likely derived from the Greek egemonia, whose root is egemon, meaning “leader, ruler, often in the sense of a state other than his own”.
• Hegemony commonly has been used to indicate political predominance, usually of one state over another.

 

• Friedrich Engels
  • Friedrich Engels German socialist philosopher, the closest collaborator of Karl Marx in the foundation of modern communism.
  • They co-authored The Communist Manifesto (1848), and Engels edited the second and third volumes of Das Kapital after Marx’s death.
• Rosa Luxemburg
  • Rosa Luxemburg was a Polish Marxist, philosopher, economist, anti-war activist, and revolutionary socialist who became a naturalized German citizen at the age of 28.
  • He was a Polish Marxist, philosopher, economist, anti-war activist, and revolutionary socialist who became a naturalized German citizen at the age of 28.
• Mao-Tse-Tung
  • Mao Zedong, also known as Chairman Mao, was a Chinese communist revolutionary.
  • He was the founder of the People's Republic of China, which he ruled as the chairman of the Chinese Communist Party from its establishment in 1949 until his death in 1976.