# Post-Marxism  Trend in political philosophy and social theory - Post-[[Marxism]] is a perspective in [[Critical Theory | critical]] [[Social theory | social theory]] which radically reinterprets Marxism, countering its association with [[Economism | economism]], [[Historical determinism | historical determinism]], [[Antihumanism | anti-humanism]], and [[Class reductionism | class reductionism]], whilst remaining committed to the construction of [[Socialism | socialism]]. Most notably, Post-Marxists are [[Essentialism | anti-essentialist]], rejecting the primacy of [[Class conflict | class struggle]], and instead focus on building [[Radical democracy | radical democracy]]. Post-Marxism can be considered a synthesis of [[Post-structuralism | post-structuralist]] frameworks and [[Neo-Marxism | neo-Marxist]] analysis, in response to the decline of the [[New Left]] after the [[Protests of 1968 | protests of 1968]]. In a broader sense, post-Marxism can refer to Marxists or Marxian-adjacent theories which break with the old [[History of socialism | worker's movements]] and socialist states entirely, in a similar sense to [[Contemporary anarchism | post-Leftism]], and accept that the era of [[Revolution | mass revolution]] premised on the [[Fordism | Fordist]] worker is potentially over. - The term "Post-Marxism" first appeared in [[Ernesto Laclau]] and Chantal Mouffe's theoretical work [[Hegemony and Socialist Strategy]]. Post-Marxism is a wide category not well-defined, containing the work of Laclau and Mouffe on the one hand, and some strands of [[Autonomism | autonomism]] and [[Open Marxism]], post-structuralism, [[Cultural studies | cultural studies]], ex-Marxists and Deleuzian-inspired 'politics of difference' on the other. Recent overviews of post-Marxism are provided by [[Ernesto Screpanti]], [[Göran Therborn]], and Gregory Meyerson. Prominent post-Marxist journals include [[New Formations]], [[Constellations (journal) | Constellations]], Endnotes, Crisis and Critique and [[Arena (Australian publishing co-operative) | Arena]].