Antonio Gramsci introduced the idea of 'historical bloc' as a key element in understanding social change. What does this term refer to?
The unity of diverse social forces under the leadership of a dominant class
In Antonio Gramsci's Prison Notebooks, a 'historical bloc' (blocco storico) is the organic fusion of a society's economic base and ideological-political superstructure, in which a dominant class secures hegemony by welding together diverse subordinate groups under its intellectual and moral leadership.
It is not a mere elite-proletariat alliance, nor a claim about cyclical history or the inevitability of revolution; it describes a durable configuration of social forces held together by consent as much as by coercion.
Hence, the term refers to the unity of diverse social forces under the leadership of a dominant class.
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