Tuesday, July 30, 2019

The value of identity politics

This article seems to me is criticizing Jacobin magazine for not including the value of identity politics, that devaluing it is missing the boat. Which of course extends to the overall dismissal of it generally as some sort of postmodern excess.

"Both Corbynism in the UK, and the Jacobin-centred public sphere more broadly, have much to gain from a serious engagement with what the latter have derisively termed 'identitarian Leftism'. Foregrounding the histories, victories, and struggles of indigenous, Black, queer, feminist, disabilities, and migrant movements and how they have successfully theorized and contested patriarchal, racial, capitalist, and imperialist hierarchies only deepens a socialist analysis and ensures that the failures of exclusionary, one-dimensional forms of organising are not repeated."

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