Hegemony and Socialist Strategy: Towards a Radical Democratic Politics

Abstract

This book traces the genealogy of the present crisis in left-wing thought, from stifling of democracy under Marxist-Lenninism and Stalinism to the contemporary emergence of new forms of struggle; and reexamines the idea of hegemony, from the formation of the idea in the writings of Lenin and Gramsci, to the expanded and discursive ideas of Foucault to posit a claim for the new possibilities of a radical democracy. This is a text for both the understanding of hegemony and for focusing on present social struggles and their significance for democratic theory.

Keywords

HegemonyDemocracyMarxist philosophyPoliticsPolitical scienceSociologyPolitical economyEpistemologySocial scienceLawPhilosophy

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Year: 1985
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                                    Chantal Mouffe, 
                                
                                    Ernesto Laclau
                                
                            (1985). 
                            Hegemony and Socialist Strategy: Towards a Radical Democratic Politics. 
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