The Operationalization of the Concepts of Political Hegemony and the Power Bloc: Elements for a Theoretical Redefinition

Authors

  • Gustavo dos Santos Cintra Lima Mestre em Ciências Sociais pela Universidade Federal de Uberlândia (2013) e professor substituto no Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade Federal de Uberlândia (UFU), Uberlândia-MG, Brasil.
  • Aldo Duran Gil Doutor em Ciências Sociais pela Unicamp; professor associado do Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade Federal de Uberlândia (UFU), Uberlândia-MG, Brasil.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.23925/ls.v19i34.25754

Keywords:

state, political hegemony, power bloc, dominant classes, dominated classes.

Abstract

This article seeks to briefly examine the proposals offered by Décio Saes for the operationalizationof the concepts of political hegemony and the power bloc, which were formulated byPoulantzas in Political Power and Social Classes, originally published in 1968. Saes appliesthe poulantzian theoretical scheme, with a number of corrections, in order to analyze theoperation of the modern Brazilian slave state and its destruction (=political revolution) duringthe transition to the dominance of capitalist production relations in Brazilian society in the latenineteenth century.

Published

2015-07-01

How to Cite

Cintra Lima, G. dos S., & Gil, A. D. (2015). The Operationalization of the Concepts of Political Hegemony and the Power Bloc: Elements for a Theoretical Redefinition. Lutas Sociais, 19(34), 9–24. https://doi.org/10.23925/ls.v19i34.25754