Class Struggle and Identity Politics

A Guide

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

Av Marc James Léger, Marc James Leger

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Contemporary bipartisan politics undermines socialist solidarity by ignoring class issues and pitting advocates of social justice against ethno-national chauvinists. This guide to the recent wave of "woke" culture wars provides a radical class analysis and critique of the most popular academic trends around diversity and inclusion: radical democracy, intersectionality, privilege theory, critical race theory and decoloniality. The book further explains the complexity of today’s cultural conflicts by examining how these issues are viewed across the political spectrum, including populist and postmodern perspectives. Exploring historical, cultural, political and economic developments since the postwar era, this follow- up to Identity Trumps Socialism provides the reader with everything you wanted to know but were afraid to ask about the campus wars that have gone mainstream.

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Utgivningsdatum2024-06-03
Mått156 x 234 x 19 mm
Vikt453 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor268
FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN9781032751580

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Introduction: The Identity of PoliticsPart I: Contemporary Variants of Identity Politics1. Identity Politics2. Radical Democracy3. Populism4. Privilege Theory and Critical Race Theory5. Intersectionality and DecolonialityPart II: Diversity Across the Political Spectrum1. Conservatism and Fascism2. Liberalism and Neoliberalism3. Postmodernism4. Anarchism5. Social Democracy and Democratic Socialism6. Socialism and CommunismPart III: Three Caveats Against the Notion of a Postmodern Left1. The Problem of Anti-Universalism2. The Difference Between Socialist Politics and Identity Politics3. Cynicism and Eclectic MaterialismClass, Class, ClassConclusion: Theses on Class Struggle and Identity Politics

"Class Struggle and Identity Politics provides a comprehensive overview of the debate between socialist and identity politics, convincingly showing why the former, rather the latter, must serve as the groundwork for any truly emancipatory politics. Required reading for anyone who wants to understand how the neoliberal obsession with identity has reduced ostensibly leftist politics from materialism to moralism, from macropolitics to micropolitics, and from solidarity to difference – and what is to be done about it!"Russell Sbriglia, Associate Professor of Literature Studies at Seton Hall University, and co-editor with Slavoj Žižek of Subject Lessons: Hegel, Lacan, and the Future of Materialism"Marc James Léger’s unwavering intervention recentres the primacy of class struggle in any project with emancipatory aspirations. Against the pitfalls of culture wars and the traps of both wokeism and anti-wokeism, this book makes resolutely clear that a Marxism worthy of the name must shed its self-defeating attachment to identity politics and affirm in an uncompromised fashion a universal politics."Zahi Zalloua, Professor of Philosophy and Literature at Whitman College, and author of Solidarity and the Palestinian Cause: Indigeneity, Blackness, and the Promise of Universality