On an ideology fracturing the left: “I think that despite the fact that its origins are a really productive, constructive attempt to deepen socialist politics, the category of identity is one that’s ultimately a dead end. It can’t be the starting point for an emancipatory politics. … You could say in a way that identity politics is the Reaganite version of cultural nationalism.”
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