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3 | Laclau and Mouffe, or How we learned to hate class and love Derrida

What's Left of Philosophy

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What's the Social? I Don't Know What the Social Is

"I don't really know what the social an other question my brain, i ely onlye on on the antic level. I only know about society," he says. "The attempt is made, although it is impossible to actually affect a, to produce society, which is an impossible object." The argument for class politics isn't about fundamentally what identity workers have, writes O'Neill. 'It's like, can you imagine in this country, in the united states, a vision for racial justice that does not include a redistribution of wealth? Yes or no?' asks O'Neil.

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