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How the Elites Use Identity Politics to Wage Class War
Ottenberg, Eve
http://www.counterpunch.org/2022/08/05/how-the-elites-use-identity-politics-to-wage-class-war/Date Written: 2022-08-05 Publisher: CounterPunch Year Published: 2022 Resource Type: Article Cx Number: CX24682 I fail to perceive how this ideology menaces an established order that its identity-activists have unctuously and sedulously wooed. Worse, identity politics weakens worker solidarity, because it never mentions class. Abstract: - Excerpt: I fail to perceive how this ideology menaces an established order that its identity-activists have unctuously and sedulously wooed. Worse, identity politics weakens worker solidarity, because it never mentions class. And class very much divides the population. There's even a class war, being waged by a vast clan of financial titans against the rest of us hoi polio. Class consciousness usually leads to class war, but identity politics is a different animal, a chameleon happy on either side of the class divide, and quite noticeably eager to seduce the rulers of swankier realms. Subject Headings |