The opportunities of opposition in Laclau and Mouffe's theory of radical democracy

The crises that have been both experienced in the centerline of the individual, universality, representation and the participation of liberalism, and in the perspective of class politics and practices ofMarxism, caused the increasing of the power pressure on societies. That is need to have a new subject position to replace the expanding absence which is in favor of the goverment in the political sphere. In spite of the conflicts of diversities, the subject that is required, will arise from its own articulations. Laclau and Mouffe's Agonistic Radical Democracy Theory gives us the methot of constructing the opposition. This study aims to reveal crises that originates from the Agonistic Radical Democracy Theory in the I. chapter. In the II. chapter, the individual, collective and the identities of the communities will be examined. Subsequently, the method and the conditions providing the "Radical Opponent" to come about as a new subject position will be evaluated. The equivalance chain is constituted through the agreements on some ethic- political principles of the members of a society. The feature of these members is that they also have the quite different identities. Thus, the opponent subject which is constructed by the theory is not a particular or an essentialist identity anymore. In this process that constructed by the new hegemonic subject position, none of these necessity categories are inoperative. A contingent construction is dominated in process. In this new process of organisation, the identities of the while participants are adapted a hegemonic identity. In this construct, social diversities are conceived gather under a single roof in a new form, while they maintain their conflicts. Keywords: Opposition, Equivalence Chain, Hegemonic Articulation, Radical Opponent