For this week's episode, Amogh and Matt are joined by Ross Wolfe to discuss Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe 1985 book Hegemony and Socialist Strategy: Towards a Radical Democratic Politics.

We talk about the text's deconstructist take on hegemony, and their post-structuralist reclamation of Gramsci and Althusser. We reflect on the legacy of Post-Marxism in the period prior to the rise of millennial socialism.

READINGS:

--"Socialist Strategy: Where Next?" - Ernesto Laclau & Chantal Mouffe, 1981: https://ftp.unz.com/PDF/PERIODICAL/MarxismToday-1981jan/19-25/

--"Hegemony and Socialist Strategy: Towards a Radical Democratic Politics" - Ernesto Laclau & Chantal Mouffe, 1985: https://tinyurl.com/ycxtz8up

--"Against Losurdo" - Ross Wolfe, 2025: https://www.newintermag.com/against-losurdo/

Ross Wolfe is a Marxist and a high school history teacher.