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Liberty?
edit"Radical democracy can be defined as "a type of democracy that signals an ongoing concern with the radical extension of equality and liberty".[1] Radical democracy is concerned with a radical extension of equality and freedom. Another feature is the idea that democracy is an un-finished, inclusive, continuous and reflexive process.[1]" Considering that 'liberty' (like slavery for instance) usually comes at the expense of equality and democracy. Also, liberty and freedom are not the same. 83.84.100.133 (talk) 05:45, 11 December 2019 (UTC)
Radical democracy is NOT an ideology as Laclau and Mouffe understand the term
editThe opening line should be removed amended. Use of the ideology here is misleading. As a former student of Ernesto Laclau, I very much doubt he would have defined radical democracy as an ideology — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.134.18.105 (talk) 14:54, 24 March 2013 (UTC)
Some suggestions for improvement
edit- First of all, the most recent source is from 2005. Since this dates back to already 14 years ago the information stated at the sub-heading ¨re-interpretations¨ is a bit outdated. New (and relevant) intepretations have emerged and are thus important to include in the sub-heading. After all, without these new interpretations that emerged along with modern phenomena the page does not give an complete overview of the concept.
- Second, the sub-heading ¨challenges¨ is based on only one source and is thus not fully inclusive and one-sided. This sub-heading should be amended by adding new and more criticisms on the theory.
- Third, the sub-heading ¨theorists¨ refers only to the names of the theorist, but does not give any explanation why these theorists are associated with the theory of radical democracy. Also, more important theorists are associated with radical democracy, like Habermas and Foucault for example.
- Lastly, the existence of a distinction between post-marxist theory and radical democracy is not made clear in this article. The sentence ¨In other contexts, radical democracy is a term used to refer to the post-Marxist perspectives of Italian radicalism—especially Paolo Virno.¨ is vague and should therefore be amended and elaborated.