<HTML>>A friend asked me to forward the following query to this list to see if >anyone had thoughts about Zizek as "post-marxist." Could someone explain what a post-Marxist is? Doug </BLOCKQUOTE> It is one of these contested terms that means different things to different people. In _Hegemony and Socialist Strategy_, Laclau and Mouffe use the term to describe their theoretical stance. It is one of the first instances of its use that I am aware of. They say that it marks out a ground which is both _post_-Marxist, in the sense that it is moving beyond the framework of the Marxist theoretical tradition, and post-_Marxist_, in the sense that it incorporates and builds upon that theoretical tradition. This is a theoretical, not a political, stance. I do not think that Zizek would see himself as a post-Marxist. He clearly remains on Marxist terrain in some pretty important ways. Leo Casey United Federation of Teachers 260 Park Avenue South New York, New York 10010-7272 (212-598-6869) Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never has, and it never will. If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation are men who want crops without plowing the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its waters. -- Frederick Douglass -- </HTML>