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Post-Marxism is a trend in political philosophy and social theory which deconstructs Karl Marx's writings and Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Marxism proper, bypassing orthodox Marxism. The term post-Marxism first appeared in Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe's theoretical work Hegemony and Socialist Strategy. It can be said that post-Marxism as a political theory was developed at the University of Essex by Laclau and Mouffe. Philosophically, post-Marxism counters derivationism and essentialism (for example, it does not see economy as a foundation of politics and the state as an instrument that functions unambiguously and autonomously on behalf of the interests of a given class). Recent overviews of post-Marxism are provided by Ernesto Screpanti, Göran Therborn and Gregory Meyerson.
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- Hegemony and Socialist Strategy by Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Ernesto Laclau and Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Chantal Mouffe
