Mehdi Ghorbanian

Hegemony and Socialist Strategy is guided by the idea of proposing unrestricted democratic politics as the basis of a socialist strategy: seeking the expression of a set of progressive social demands in order to create a collective democratic subject capable of promoting an alternative social model. This articulation implies a provocative break with previous ways of thinking about politics, at least from two perspectives. First, the author argues for a linguistic and discursive interpretation of social reality, starting from an epistemological conception influenced by late Wittgenstein and Derrida's theory. Second, it aims at a post-Marxist project of analysis of social reality, i.e. one that has abandoned the class logic (class reductionism) that equates the dynamics of social conflict with the class struggle in the usual Marxian interpretation. There is no doubt that Hegemony and Socialist Strategy will provoke (and has provoked) a critical response from all those who do not consider the urgency of constructing a new starting point for radical democratic reasoning and the need for a typical project building a more just society.