ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on key concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book examines Karl Marx's theory of revolutionary subjectivity as a means of assessing the post-Marxism of Ernesto Laclau, Antonio Negri and Alain Badiou. It discusses the political consequences associated with each thinker adopting a different ontological framework to Marx's. The book argues that post-Marxism should be considered in terms of its complex continuity, and not simply as a clear-cut abandonment of Marx's ideas. The strongest aspects of Negri's theory of revolutionary subjectivity his continued focus on the changing nature of productive activity and its immanent potentialities reveal both the weaknesses and yet also the strengths to Laclau's. Like Negri, today Badiou is one of the few select contemporary social theorists that have sought to uphold the concept or idea of communism.
