... and therefore, their dominance. This concept of hegemony is essentially the consent of the proletariat and lower classes to be dominated and ruled by those in the bourgeoisie. This consent is achieved by the ideals, politics and morals must be the predominant ones in society. Those who dissent from the ruling class are repressed, often by use of force, and the ruling class forms alliances with the lower proletariat and peasantry. Because of these alliances, the lower classes believe in the ideals of the capitalist society and therefore do not revolt. Lenin saw social and political domination in much the same way as Marx did, that true democracy and the path to socialism and communism were hindered by the bourgeois ownership of the mode of production. He saw a violent, immediate revolution as the principal avenue by which the proletariat would seize power. Gramsci disagrees with Lenin in this idea. In ...

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