Political subject

A political subject refers to a group, collective, or community, sometimes also to an individual, with common interests which are reflected in a autonomous will to decide and act in the public and political sphere, for the defense and promotion of those interests, through mechanisms of power and influence, generally in an institutionalized form and using arguments of legitimacy. If we turn to Lacan, we obtain a much simpler definition: a political subject is any "we". In one form or another, political subjects include sovereign political communities, as supreme political subjects, political parties, associations with public influence, lobbies and think tanks, as well as media outlets, companies, and their groups or individual leaders.