David Payne completed his PhD in Political Theory at Essex University in 2012. He presently lectures in Rhetoric and Political Theory at Södertörn University, Sweden. He is also the university’s International Research Editor. Payne has written articles and book chapters on continental political philosophy, Marxism, revolutionary thought and Post-Marxism, as well as populism and the category of the people. In 2023, he co-edited a book entitled Populism and the People in Contemporary Critical Thought: Politics, Philosophy and Aesthetics (Bloomsbury, 2023). He is also presently working on a co-edited volume on the work of Ernesto Laclau, entitled Laclau, Populism and the Left (Routledge 2025).