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Coercion and Consent ppt.
- Main Q's
o How did the regime last so long
o To what extent did the regime use state instruments to coerce and suppress opposition?
o How popular was Fascism among the masses?
o To what extent did society accept the state's authority over it?
- Gramsci's Theory of Hegemony
o ‘Prison Notebooks'- theorize why working class accepts its status under capitalism.
o Dominance (‘hegemony') of bourgeois culture prevents working class conceiving of alternative social and political structures.
o Hegemony exercised in everyday cultural practices and activities in ‘civil society'
- Renzo De Felice and ‘Years of Consent' (1974)
o Period of Depression (1929-36) is that of greatest consent for regime.
o Majority of protests, economic, not political.
o Essentially reproduces police interpretations.
o Interprets absence of dissent as indication consent.
- Policing and Subversion
o Only incidents involving known anti-Fascists are defined as political.
o Otherwise recorded as simple public disorder.
o Local officers downplay dissent to superiors.
o Informers exaggerate dissent to superiors to prove doing job.
o Social historians use alternative sources e.g: oral history.
o Focus on everyday practices that try to challenge Fascist hegemony.
o Examples include wearing red tie, singing Socialists songs under noise factory machinery.
- Defining Consent
o Active Resistance: Engage in behavior designed to obstruct functioning regime
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