Practice question · True or false
No durable regime rests on coercion alone.
Hints
- Consider what coercion costs and where compliance reaches.
- It requires watching everyone, and works only where the watching reaches.
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True
Why
True, and the reason is practical before it is moral. Coercion is expensive, requires surveillance proportional to the population, and produces compliance only where the surveillance reaches. Every durable regime therefore also produces consent, which is what Gramsci's hegemony describes.
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