title: Hegemony And Socialist Strategy: Towards A Radical Democratic Politics (Radical Thinkers)
author:  Ernesto Laclau 
description: A brilliant tour de force of scholarship and argument.<i>Marxism Today</i>
zlib_text: Hegemony 
  and Socialist Strategy 
  Towards a Radical Democratic Politics 
  Second Edition 
  • 
  ERNESTO LACLAU 
  and 
  CHANTAL MOUFFE 
  VERSO 
  London • New York 
  
  First published by Verso 1985 
  © Ernesto Ladau and Chantal Mouffe 1985 
  This second edition first published by Verso 2001 
  © Ernesto Ladau and Chantal Mouffe 2001 
  All rights reserved 
  The moral rights of the authors have been asserted 
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  Contents 
  Preface to the Second Edition 
  Vll 
  Introduction 
  1 
  1 Hegem