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To these ideas of Gramsci's we must add one more. Every hegemonic bloc embodies a set of assumptions about what is just and right and what is not. Since at least the mid-twentieth century in the United States and Europe, capital- ist hegemony has been forged by com- bining two different aspects of right and justice— one focused on distribution, the other on recognition. The distribu- tive aspect conveys a view about how society should allocate divisible goods, especially income. This aspect speaks to the economic structure of society and, however obliquely, to its class divisions. The recognition aspect expresses a sense of how society should apportion respect and esteem, the moral marks of mem- bership and belonging. Focused on the status order of society, this aspect refers to its status hierarchies.

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To these ideas of Gramsci's we must add one more. Every hegemonic bloc embodies a set of assumptions about what is just and right and what is not. Since at least the mid-twentieth century in the United States and Europe, capital- ist hegemony has been forged by com- bining two different aspects of right and justice— one focused on distribution, the other on recognition. The distribu- tive aspect conveys a view about how society should allocate divisible goods, especially income. This aspect speaks to the economic structure of society and, however obliquely, to its class divisions. The recognition aspect expresses a sense of how society should apportion respect and esteem, the moral marks of mem- bership and belonging. Focused on the status order of society, this aspect refers to its status hierarchies.
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In this book, Nancy Fraser expands on Gramsci’s writing about hegemony (the book’s title is borrowed from the well known Gramsci quote, too).
Trumpism, she argues, is the most visible symptom of a deeper hegemonic crisis. The public faith in society’s core assumptions is unraveling. The broad postwar/post-Civil Rights consensus about how society should apportion respect and distribute resources is coming apart. “Now is the time of monsters.”

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