ernesto laclau populismo pdf

Any Gramsci useful for the present conjuncture must go beyond Laclau and Mouffe—or, beyond a notion of radical democracy still determined by consent and contract. This critique of Ernesto Laclau's theory of populism is a revised and expanded version of an article published in the journal Constellations in In so doing, however, the hegemony theory he is most known for—as opposed to the theory of hegemony as articulated by Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci—elevated democracy to the status of social justice as an orienting principle of collective action. A perspective rooted in the experience of the poor demands that everyone have a right not to exist in their current state, but to have the food, shelter, education, access and resources necessary to no longer be poor. However, the positing of such a coherence is nonetheless necessary in the execution of any political demand in that the differential identities in play must either band together or set themselves apart in the pursuit of their particular goals.

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