Capitalism and Political Strategy in Post-Marxist Discourse Theory. Reply to Jacobs

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ID12161973
AuthorsPedro M Rey-Araújo (0000-0002-0008-4633, corresponding author)
Year2021
Volume33
Issue1
Pages162-167
Publication date2021-01-02
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueRethinking Marxism (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0893-5696 • E-ISSN: 1475-8059
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/08935696.2020.1847019
OpenAlexW3135617338
LanguageEN
References cited10

In this paper, I provide a short reply to Jacobs’s critical appraisal of my previous article, “Ernesto Laclau’s Oblivion of Political Economy,” published in this journal, volume 32, number 2 (2020). There, I had argued that Laclau’s post-Marxism suffered from a marked incapacity to theorize the extent to which capitalist dynamics affect ongoing hegemonic struggles. In this regard, Jacobs argues that I implicitly resort to an ontological dualism at odds with post-Marxism’s ontological stance, from which an essentialist account of capitalist dynamics ensues. I argue that, while remaining firmly within post-Marxism's core ontological assumptions, further theoretical integration of political economy approaches is a promising path for enhancing post-Marxism’s usefulness for strategic reflection, as both of us ultimately aim to do

Capitalism · Critical theory · Dualism · Economics · Epistemology · Essentialism · Hegemony · Marxist philosophy · Neoclassical economics · Political science · Politics · Positive economics · Social science · Sociology · Critical Theory and Philosophy · Elite Sociology and Global Capitalism · Law · Philosophy · Political Economy and Marxism

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