Left-right antagonisms remain relevant and must be redirected into agonistic struggle

Evidence

But [0 believe that the antagonisms that those categories evoke have disappeared in our globalized world is to fall prey to the hegemonic nco-liberal discourse of the end of politics. Far from having lost their rdevance, the stakes to which the left and the right allude are more pertinent than ever. The task ahead is to provide them with a content through which political passions could be redirected towards the democratic agonistic struggle. — Chantal Mouffe, The Democratic Paradox, 557

Categorization

• XREF: Builds toward the chapter’s test of whether agonistic pluralism can do without a constitutive enemy; frames left-right categories as needing agonistic redirection. — connects to: Erasure of left-right distinction harms rather than advances democracy — Chantal Mouffe, The Democratic Paradox, 46; Political fragmentation weakens easy left-right orientation — Nina Eliasoph, “Close to home”: The work of avoiding…, 10; Democracy’s task is converting antagonism into agonism, not erasing it — Chantal Mouffe, The Democratic Paradox, 584 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Democracy’s task is converting antagonism into agonism, not erasing it #corroborates (0.97) — Chantal Mouffe, The Democratic Paradox, 584
• Erasure of left-right distinction harms rather than advances democracy #corroborates (0.85) — Chantal Mouffe, The Democratic Paradox, 46
• Dominant ideology recruits the dominated by neutralizing rival ideologies’ antagonism #complicates (0.73)
• Political fragmentation weakens easy left-right orientation #complicates (0.72) — Nina Eliasoph, “Close to home”, 10
• Ideological struggle must target the strongest adversary, not the weakest #expands (0.71) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1541