Tag Archives: identity politics

Leo Jubault: “Memory against History: Black Lives Matter, Identity and the Revolution”

Posted on October 28, 2020 by

“This is a revolutionary moment; one that needed no parties or state, one that comes, as it often does, from the eruption of the memory of the oppressed. A memory that lies within specific lived experiences, but whose truth and call for justice transcends those specificities. From Rojava to Chiapas, from Yellow Jackets to Black Lives Matter.”

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Anton Jäger: “21st Century Americanism”

Posted on February 24, 2018 by

‘The attempt to think Marxism with identity — in short, the attempt to think a left-wing populism — has always held dangers. One should remain vigilant of those dangers even today. The scenario of a populism that never goes beyond identity — the same gambit as that of the alt-right — remains a serious threat.  We should neither accept the intellectual blackmail that pits “the people” against “the class,” nor should we forget the structural bargain involved in trading the language of class for that of the people, as is too often presupposed in contemporary musings on left-populism.’

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Asad Haider – “A Marxist Critiques Identity Politics”

Posted on April 29, 2017 by

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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