#51: Hegemony and Socialist Strategy with Ross Wolfe

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.