REFORMULATIONS OF THE MARXIST THEORY IN THE POST-MARXIST APPROACH OF LACLAU AND MOUFFE

Abstract

This work aims to investigate the continuities and discontinuities of the Marxist tradition in Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe´s post-Marxism, from the identification of concepts and discursive forms derived from Marxism that are reworked by the authors in the transition to the post-Marxist approach. Therefore, we analyze how the categories of materialism, antagonism and hegemony are reformulated to compose the conceptual apparatus of post-Marxism. This analysis allows us to understand that the attempt to radicalize Marx's materialism unfolds in a Discourse Theory, the constitutive character of antagonism leads to the impossibility of all objectivity and the new approach of hegemony leads to the reformulation of marxist socialism notion. From this analysis, it is possible to discuss the pertinence of questioning the classic authors from a deconstructionist perspective that leads to the deconstruction of its constituent elements.