Marxism

From ancient times, literature and the arts have portrayed, and criticism and theory have discussed, differences in people's social class and history. But with the spread and maturation of capitalism throughout its various stages, economic and other disparities have more visibly polarized wealthy and poor classes, city residents and ghetto dwellers, inhabitants of the first and third worlds, whites and people of color, men and women. Class formations, class consciousness, and class tensions form part …

…and cultural realms, hegemonic domination involves the social and cultural realms, areas where it is much more difficult to isolate and understand, because it is, . . . our lived system of meanings and values." - Hegemonic domination is thus more widespread, more hidden or disguised, and more compete than ideological domination, which has parameters" that can be located and addressed. Marxist critics often combine the two terms and talk about "ideological hegemonic domination," covering all the bases. 64