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Analysis and critique of identity fetishism as a political phenomenon, from a Marxist perspective.
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What is Identity Politics?
[Identity] politics is not an alternative to class politics; it is a class politics, the politics of the left-wing of neoliberalism. It is the expression and active agency of a political order and moral economy in which capitalist market forces are treated as unassailable nature.
An integral element of that moral economy is displacement of the critique of the invidious outcomes produced by capitalist class power onto equally naturalized categories of ascriptive identity that sort us into groups supposedly defined by what we essentially are rather than what we do.
– Adolph Reed
Foundational Texts
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Adolph Reed Jr:
Walter Benn Michaels:
Barbara and Karen Fields:
Mark Fisher:
Stuart Hall:
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Critiques of Intersectionality:
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-Confronting Capitalism with Vivek Chibber
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Inspirational Business Quotes:
We’re going to fight racism not with racism, but we’re going to fight with solidarity. We say we’re not going to fight capitalism with black capitalism, but we’re going to fight it with socialism.
– Fred Hampton
The campaign against "anti-Semitism" [in the Labour Party] takes hold of a vulnerability of the broad left - its intersectionality, its inability to confront identity-oppression claims. By doing so it weaponises the idea of anti-racism.
– Mike Macnair, editor of Weekly Worker
One unfortunate thing about [the slogan] Black Power is that it gives priority to race precisely at a time when the impact of automation and other forces have made the economic question fundamental for blacks and whites alike. In this context a slogan ‘Power for Poor People’ would be much more appropriate than the slogan ‘Black Power."
– MLK
“In combating racism we do not make progress if we combat the people themselves. We have to combat the causes of racism.... Many people lose energy and effort combating shadows. We have to combat the material reality that produces the shadow.”
– Amilcar Cabral
All science would be superfluous if the outward appearance and the essence of things directly coincided.
– The Moor (Capital Vol. III)
