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Original articles

Vol. 29 No. 3 (2009)

Laclau in debate: Post-Marxism, Populism, Multitude and Event (interviewed by Ricardo Camargo)

Submitted
January 14, 2020
Published
2020-01-14

Abstract

In this interview Ernesto Laclau begins by tracing his intellectual evolution, which has shifted from a Latin American Marxism to a post-Marxism with Gramscian and Lacanian influences. Thereafter, the interview addresses the debate that Laclau has been facing with the notions of Multitude and Event developed by Toni Negri and Alain Badiou respectively. Lastly, the interview discusses the notions of Populism, Hegemony and contra-Hegemony developed by Laclau in
his late works, having always as an explicit reference the Latin-American political setting and particularly the current Bolivian process.