Why do social movements fail to establish true victory? How should social movements conduct social analysis and change in the days of advanced capitalism?
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###- These books begin by posing a challenge to the crisis and the failure of Marxism in analyzing contemporary social realms. This failure, according to Lauclau and Mouffe, is rooted in an essentialist and totalistic nature in Marxist thought.
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###- By tracing the genealogy of the concept of hegemony and deconstructing Marxists from Rosa Luxemburg, Karl Kautsky, Eduard Bernstein, Lenin and Plekhanov, to Gramsci and Althusser. Laclau and Mouffe do a mapping of Marxist thought in an explicit way. They also tethered the idea of postmodernism, posstrukturalisme and psychoanalysis to the concept of hegemony to produce a collection of social analysis relevant to this era of advanced capitalism.
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###- Lauclau and Mouffe are regarded as characters in an idea known today as Pos-Marxism. This book is a key work in the sense of pentin concepts
