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- PublicationOpen AccessA (Liberal) Sheep in (Marxist) Wolf’s Clothing? Reassessing Antonio Gramsci’s Conceptualisation of Hegemony(Universidad de Murcia, 2019) Pass, JonathanAntonio Gramsci’s greatest contribu- tion to Western political thought, arguably, is his conceptualisation of hegemony. Sadly, a wides- pread tendency to misinterpret the term as being analogous to ‘leadership based upon consent’, has reduced power to ideological control: an essen- tially liberal perspective. This paper aims to rec- tify this error, carrying out a more comprehensive analysis of Gramsci’s conceptualisation of hege- mony as expounded in his Prison Notebooks, set against the backdrop of his own political/intellec- tual evolution. Hegemony, as a result, is shown to be compatible with Marxist theories of power, i.e. necessarily materially-rooted and underpinned by coercion.