Postmodern politics and Marxism
Postmodern politics and Marxism

Summary/Abstract: The article is a critical and introductory analysis of postmodern political philosophy and political sociology in general and postmarxism, a brand of the general postmodern theorizing, as well as a critical review of a postmarxist study, Laclau and Mouffe’s, “Hegemony and Socialist Strategy”. The postmodern approaches to social and political phenomena, the article shows, can be seen in its rejection of the modern premises, which is accepted by mainstream Marxist theory, that social relations have a centre and base and can be understood and changed scientifically. The postmarxist circles within this general approach, the article shows, reject the validity and significance of class theory and socialist revolution as suggested by the mainstream Marxism.

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