Hegemony and Socialist Strategy by Chantal Mouffe and Ernesto Laclau

NorthStarBolshevik [none/use name] · 3 years ago

Hegemony and Socialist Strategy by Chantal Mouffe and Ernesto Laclau

LibsEatPoop [any] · edit-2 3 years ago

Hegemony and Socialist Strategy: Towards a Radical Democratic Politics is a 1985 work of political theory in the post-Marxist tradition by Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe. Developing several sharp divergences from the tenets of canonical Marxist thought, the authors begin by tracing historically varied discursive constitutions of class, political identity, and social self-understanding, and then tie these to the contemporary importance of hegemony as a destabilized analytic which avoids the traps of various procedures Mouffe and Laclau feel constitute a foundational flaw in Marxist thought: essentializations of class identity, the use of a priori interpretative paradigms with respect to history and contextualization, the privileging of the base/superstructure binary above other explicative models.

Bruh, can we have some socialism please before we go into motherfucking post-Marxism.

Edit: Norman Geras, in a New Left Review article titled 'Post-Marxism?', lambasted Lacau and Mouffe for what he regarded as shallow obscurantism grounded on basic misunderstandings of both Marx and Marxism. After Laclau's and Mouffe's response to Geras' paper (in 'Post-Marxism without apologies'), Geras doubled down with 'Ex-Marxism Without Substance: Being A Real Reply to Laclau and Mouffe' in which he further criticised the post-Marxist turn.

These fucks will keep arguing about what is Marxism while the world burns.

NorthStarBolshevik [none/use name] · 3 years ago

In other words, I'm a lib?

LibsEatPoop [any] · 3 years ago

I'll be honest, I highly doubt anyone who frequents this site is a lib.

NorthStarBolshevik [none/use name] · 3 years ago

Thanks, I will check out those essays.