A dismantling of Marxism as a closed system with a single, laser-beam reading.

Written before Hegemony and Socialist Strategy made him unavoidable, this is Laclau working through class, populism, ideology, fascism, and capitalism as unstable formations rather than fixed truths. You can feel the ground shifting under the arguments. Nothing is settled. Nothing is safe.

It’s also a reminder of what political theory used to look like. It was slow, rigorous, and willing to sit inside contradiction instead of smoothing it out for relevance or clicks. The famous triangle on the cover isn’t decorative — it’s a map of tensions that still haven’t resolved themselves.

This is a Verso / Radical Thinkers paperback in very good condition. Not rare, but increasingly absent from general circulation — the kind of book people reference far more often than they actually read.

For readers interested in Marxism without dogma, politics without slogans, and theory that still feels alive.