Fulfilled dreams of the traumatised Left Cover Image

Splnené sny traumatizovanej ľavice
Fulfilled dreams of the traumatised Left

Author(s): Peter Takáč
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: Ústav politických vied Slovenskej akadémie vied
Keywords: democracy; class warfare; populism; post-Marxism; emancipation; dream; trauma

Summary/Abstract: Postmarxism tries to strategically link social demands of particular struggles to build a common chain of equivalences. However this concept leans on democracy as the open space for hegemony, which covers the fundamental social antagonism and thus functions as a fetish for problems that cannot be articulated within the horizon of liberal democracy. In this sense democracy fulfills dreams of postmodern capitalism confronted with the trauma of the class struggle.

  • Issue Year: VI/2013
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 94-100
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: Slovak
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