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The political pedagogy of proletarian hegemony. Gramsci, Vygotsky, and the Egyptian workers' movement in the face of revolution
The political pedagogy of proletarian hegemony Gramsci, Vygotsky, and the Egyptian Workers’ Movement in the Face of Revolution
Dreaming about the lesser evil: revolutionary desire and the limits of democratic transition in Egypt
The prince and the minotaur: Egypt in the labyrinth of counter-revolution
This paper contributes to the study of Egypt’s 25 January Revolution and to a more general understanding of revolutions and counter-revolutions. I turn to Gramsci’s concepts of hegemony, passive revolution, and the Modern Prince to understand the weakness of revolutionary subjectivity. Moreover, I argue that the concept of prefiguration serves as a critical addendum to Gramsci’s discussion of a new emancipatory politics embodied by the Modern Prince. Conversely, Gramsci’s concept of hegemony helps us to understand the theoretical and practical limits of prefigurative politics. By presenting the Egyptian counter-revolution as a labyrinthine structure, the paper cautions against simplistic views of reaction and the lure of processes of ‘democratic transition’ and mass movements ‘from above’ that derail revolutionary agency from its key, emergent purpose: to develop itself into a social power able to construct the alternative society it imagines
Urban culture as passive revolution: a gramscian sketch of the uneven and Combined Transitional development of rural and urban modern culture in Europe and Egypt
The prince and the Pharaoh: the collaborative project of workers and their intellectuals in the face of revolution
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