The Marxist method and Antonio Gramsci's concept of hegemony: Ideology in the system of social production

Abstract

The article begins outlining the decisive theoretical-methodological elements of the Marxist conception of human activity and its specificity, drawing from the debt that Marx had with German Classical Philosophy as well as highlighting  the peculiarities of the Marxian contributions. Afterwards, it is briefly pointed out Marx's and Engels' conceptualization about the division between material and spiritual labour, highlighting that the relationship between the materiality and the social consciousness constitutes an organic differentiation in a single totality of social relations. Finally, the article engages, in its basic outlines, the Gramscian theorization as it is in the Prison Notebooks, about hegemony, and engaged in dialogue with Marx's conception, assuming that Antonio Gramsci continues and concretizes Marx's and Engels' conception about the State, the division of intellectual-manual labour and hegemony.