# Ernesto Laclau (in this topic) Hub: [[Topics/Religion, Trust and Civilization/Religion, Trust and Civilization|Religion, Trust and Civilization]] · Analysis: [[Users/@noFrontMilitar/Post Analyses/Post Analysis - noFrontMilitar on Gramsci, Christianity and Hegemony (2026-10-24)|@noFrontMilitar on Gramsci (Oct 24, 2026)]] - **Who:** Argentine political theorist (1935–2014). Taught at the University of Essex; co-founder of the "Essex School" of discourse analysis. - **Key work:** *Hegemony and Socialist Strategy: Towards a Radical Democratic Politics* (with Chantal Mouffe, Verso, 1985). It reworked Gramsci's hegemony in post-structuralist terms, gave up the working class's privileged revolutionary role, and proposed a "chain of equivalence" among democratic struggles. Later *On Populist Reason* (2005), which influenced Podemos and parts of the Latin American left. - **In this topic:** @noFrontMilitar's essay says he and Mouffe "swapped the proletariat for a chain of identity demands". Substantially right about the book; the causal story ("that is how class revolution became identity revolution") is the author's opinion.