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2. What did Billings study and apply Gramsci’s ideas to?

  • He looked into two communities in the 1920s and 30s; one coalminers, the other textile workers
  • He looked into the change in ownerships in business during the 1920s and 30s
  • He pretended to be working class for a week to see how they were exploited

3. Why is hegemony never guaranteed?

  • Because it is always possible the working class will develop an alternative vision about how society should be organised
  • Because capitalists are selfish and therefore always compete with each other
  • Because it is possible for people to move between classes which means the ruling class can be overthrown

4. How do Marxists see religion as having relative autonomy?

  • It can be partly independent of society’s economic base and is sometimes a force of change
  • It isn’t always found in capitalist societies, some communist countries, such as Cuba, still have religion
  • They don’t

5. What do Maduro and Lowy see liberation theology as?

  • An example of a religious conservative force
  • An example of religiously inspired social change
  • An example of the exploitation of the working class

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