THE STRANGE MARXISM OF ERNESTO LACLAU

Abstract

In recent years, the Argentinian media agenda has been passed through insistently by the political scientist Ernesto Laclau, following his intellectual support to the national government. His work continues to be well receipted in our country, as its copious production has been published from England, where he lives since the seventies. This Professor at University of Essex draws attention from the television screen by his insistence in enumerating the merits of the national government, in carrying out what he called the populist reason as a plausible democracy model with perspectives of emancipation. The following text is an attempt to revise the Laclau´s proposal through his Theory of Hegemony, as a contribution to the understanding of his diagnosis on the current Argentinian political scene.