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Post‐Marxist Project: An Assessment and Critique of Ernesto Laclau
Author(s) -
Veltmeyer Henry
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
sociological inquiry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.446
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1475-682X
pISSN - 0038-0245
DOI - 10.1111/j.1475-682x.2000.tb00922.x
Subject(s) - marxist philosophy , criticism , hegemony , sociology , abandonment (legal) , epistemology , social science , philosophy , law , political science , politics
The writings of Ernesto Laclau are an important contribution to various efforts over the last decade and a half to move beyond or resolve a theoretical impasse in Marxist thought and analysis. In Hegemony and Socialist Strategy , co‐authored with Chantelle Mouffe and published in 1985, Laclau seeks to establish a post‐Marxist form of analysis that takes a theoretical position “within Marxism.” It is argued that post‐Marxism as formulated by Laclau is an abandonment, not a renewal, of Marxist thought and that as such it is part of a long tradition of idealist anti‐Marxist criticism that should be rejected for its theoretical flaws and misplaced criticism.