The left-wing case against identity politics
It is time progressives stood up to the racism, classism and misogyny of wokeness.
O'Neill, Brendan
http://www.spiked-online.com/2022/04/01/the-left-wing-case-against-identity-politics/
Date Written: 2022-04-01
Publisher: Spiked
Year Published: 2022
Resource Type: Article
Cx Number: CX24582
Book review of The Identity Myth by David Swift.
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The Identity Myth by David Swift is a fun and clever book. It's a counterblast to the Flapper Girl socialism of Novara Media. It brilliantly dismantles the 'NeoOrientalism' of the identitarian left. It lights a fire under the arse of the graduate left who say, without a flicker of shame, that 65-year-old working-class people who own their homes are the new propertied elite while posh twentysomethings with PhDs who pay sky-high rents in hip Hackney are the new proles. If you've ever found yourself wondering how the left lost the plot, how a movement founded to represent the interests of the working class ended up treating the working class as a lost, hopeless, mostly racist cause, you could do worse than start here.
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