Within this structure of domination, one can also make sense of hegemonization and legitimation in a Gramscian sense. The CCP is a part of society, a sphere in which it organizes consent and hegemony. According to Antonio Gramsci(in Simon 1991: 48-52), if one organization is to become hegemonic, it has to combine the interests of other organizations and social forces with its own interests so as to create a nationally popular collective will. Similarly, the CCP cannot achieve national leadership and become a hegemonic organization if it confines itself only to its own organizational interests or the interests of other political actors on which it has built its hegemonic position. Instead, to sustain and reproduce its hegemonic position across historical periods, the CCP has to transcend these interests by taking into account the aims and interests of other political forces, linking these with its own interests so as to become their universal representative. By doing so, the CCP realizes the dual processes of domination and legitimation in its relations with social forces