What is to stop a pro-monarchist or religious fundamentalist struggle entering the chain of equivalence?
CM: There are movements which could never be placed in the radical democratic chain, because they would refuse to adjust to the demands of others – for instance the Ku Klux Klan could not be linked to black rights. However, most struggles can work for or against the radical democratic project, depending on how they have been articulated in specific circumstances. A struggle for hegemony is a struggle to transform the consciousness of individual groups in society so that they see that their interests are tied up with the interests of other groups. The demands of the middle classes, for example, could be linked to a radical democratic hegemony if you are able to present this in such a way that people will say ’we are going to accept we have to pay more taxes because we believe it is important to have better schools, a better social security system, a better NHS’. Groups which presently are not radical need to be linked to the socialist cause to create a broad anti-capitalist movement. Th
