Rethinking the democratic experience from Latin America: The conception of radical democracy in the work of Ernesto Laclau

The proposal for a radical democracy fit with a conception in which power appears as an "empty space". This means that the place of universality, which occupied the working class in Marx"s theory, is replaced by an articulatory practice policy, which becomes the unit responsible for providing a momentary and partial fragmentary elements of a structure open social and dislocated (plural).