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    It is not the case that Radical democracy requires rejecting Western liberal democratic institutions such as parliaments and constitutions.

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    • 1.Chantal Mouffe and Ernesto Laclau's radical democracy explicitly appropriates liberal democratic institutions as sites of hegemonic contestation, not rejection.
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    • 2.Mouffe argues constitutions and parliaments can be radicalized by rearticulting their founding principles around agonistic pluralism rather than liberal consensus.
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    • 3.The conflation of liberal democratic *forms* with liberal democratic *content* commits a category error that radical democratic theorists themselves warn against.
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    • 1.Historical radical democratic movements, from Chartism to the Civil Rights Movement, advanced their transformative claims *through* constitutional language, not against it.
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    • 2.Frank Michelman and Jürgen Habermas demonstrate that constitutional self-governance contains internal democratic resources that exceed and can challenge capitalist presuppositions.
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    • 3.Rejecting institutions wholesale forfeits existing legal protections disproportionately relied upon by marginalized groups, undermining radical democracy's own egalitarian commitments.
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    • 1.Western liberal democratic institutions rely on individualism and capitalism.
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    • 2.Radical democracy entails opposition to the subservience of politics to capitalism.
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    • 3.Institutions grounded in individualism and capitalism cannot serve as the foundation for radical democracy.
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