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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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