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Beyond Neoliberal Identity Politics
Street, Paul
http://www.counterpunch.org/2017/05/24/beyond-neoliberal-identity-politics/Date Written: 2017-05-24 Publisher: CounterPunch Year Published: 2017 Resource Type: Article Cx Number: CX20967 Neoliberal identity politics (NIP) is a great weapon on the hands of the privileged capitalist Few and their mass-murderous global empire. Abstract: - Excerpt: There's a name for all this identity-politicized madness in which so many fake-progressive bourgeois liberals are invested: ruling class divide-and-rule. I am not one of those social democratic and conomistic, class-reductionist sorts who says that any and all identity politics must be forsaken. No Left worthy of the label should deny or ignore the specific experience and oppression of females, Blacks, Native Americans, Latinos, gays. transgendered people, Muslims, Arabs. Africans, and so on. Discounting the particularities of peoples’ lives and subjugation as they relate to racial, gender, sexual, ethnic, and national identity leads nowhere morally or politically. What needs to be rejected is the paralyzing and reactionary kind of bourgeois identitarianism Subject Headings |