Gramsci’s Theory Of Cultural Hegemony And Its Contemporary Significance

Antonio gramsci is one of the founders of western marxism theory, international outstanding communist fighter. Gramsci has profound philosophical background, he has rich experience in revolutionary practice. In the world environment, Gramsci deeply insights the modern state of its whole development process. In the concrete revolutionary practice, Gramsci keenly capture the necessary conntion between the cultural activities and the process of social revolutionary movement in Western Europe. Gramsci put forward the famous theory of cultural hegemony.Gramsci fully understood and grasped the Russian proletarian culture and social reality, deeply analyze and sum up the experiences of east and west of the proletarian revolution. In order to explore a suitable road for western European capitalist countries.Gramsci thinks that capture cultural hegemony, mainly relying on the practice of "organic intellectuals", giving full play to the intermediary role, to carry out the "trench warfare"in the "civil society" which is a unique place,through the spiritual and moral guidance and transformation to education of the masses of the people, let the broad masses of the people eventually make the ruling class’s view of the world voluntarily to accept and "agree", to consolidate the legal status of the ruling class.This article mainly discusses Gramsci’s theory of cultural hegemony and its contemporary significance.It is divided into four parts.The introduction part mainly introduced the paper selected significance and the research status both at home and abroad, the research methods.The first chapter simply discusses the cultural hegemony,expounds gramsci’s philosophy of practice,analyzes the relationship of theory between the practical philosophy and the cultural hegemony.The second chapter is the main part of the thesis.It introduces the forming process of Gramsci’s cultural hegemony and focuses on "civil society", "organic intellectuals", the meaning of the concept of "positional warfare" and other concepts, strive to achieve the overall comprehensive description of Gramsci’s cultural hegemony.The third chapter mainly elaborates the Gramsci’s thought and contemporary significance. In today’s global environment,we should strengthen the socialist cultural hegemony, attaches great importance to the construction and development of cultural industry in our country, enhancing national cultural soft power, maintaining the safety of the cultural ideology in our country,in order to develope the socialist culture.