post-Marxism
After the dialectic
Post-Marxism is a theoretical approach that draws on Marxist concepts while rejecting key tenets of classical Marxism—particularly economic determinism and the privileged role of class struggle.
Post-Marxists typically emphasize culture, discourse, and identity politics over material conditions, arguing that social change emerges from diverse movements rather than a unified working class.
The term gained prominence through the work of Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe in the 1980s.
Post-Marxism influenced contemporary debates about populism and democratic theory.
Dominant group's control
- discourseFormal communication on subjects
- contingencyUncertain possible event
- articulationClear vocal expression
- antagonismActive opposition or hostility
deconstruction · signifier · identity politics · pluralism · post-structuralism · Gramsci · equivalence · difference
Organized collective action for change
- feminismAdvocacy for sex equality
- environmentalismAdvocacy for nature protection
- LGBTQ rightsProtections for sexual minorities
- coalition politicsShared rule among parties
grassroots · activism · intersectionality · populism · civil society · citizenship · emancipation · solidarity
Study of purpose in nature
- totalityComplete aggregate amount
- false consciousnessInternalized ideology against self-interest
- essentialismDoctrine of fixed natures
- universalismDoctrine of total reconciliation
metanarrative · foundationalism · Soviet collapse · revisionism · Althusser · structuralism
hegemony
Dominant group's control
- discourseFormal communication on subjects
- contingencyUncertain possible event
- articulationClear vocal expression
antagonism · deconstruction · signifier · identity politics · pluralism · post-structuralism · Gramsci · equivalence · difference · social movements
social movements
Organized collective action for change
- feminismAdvocacy for sex equality
- environmentalismAdvocacy for nature protection
- LGBTQ rightsProtections for sexual minorities
coalition politics · grassroots · activism · intersectionality · populism · civil society · citizenship · emancipation · solidarity · participatory democracy
teleology
Study of purpose in nature
- totalityComplete aggregate amount
- false consciousnessInternalized ideology against self-interest
- essentialismDoctrine of fixed natures
universalism · metanarrative · foundationalism · Soviet collapse · revisionism · Althusser · structuralism
post-Marxismneoliberalism
Pro-market, anti-regulation ideology
libertarianism · classical liberalism · Austrian economics · Thatcherism · objectivism