left conservatism

[Jim heartfield]

In message <l03130304b1b2dade33a8@[166.84.250.86]>, Doug Henwood
<dhenwood at panix.com> writes
>Jim heartfield wrote:
>
>>Racial and sexual oppression are indeed premissed upon relations of
>>production. However, identity politics does not find its foundation upon
>>those divisions, but on the consumption of the surplus. I don't see the
>>Women's studies courses related in any way but the most tangential to
>>the oppression of women. On the contrary, their preoccupation with the
>>symbols of oppression arises from their concern with the cultural life
>>of unproductive consumption, as opposed to the world of production.
>
>Any evidence for this? Or is this something it just feels good to assert?

Well, you'll have to read my book 'Need and Desire in the post-material
Economy' published by Sheffield Hallam University Press in July for the
evidence.

In the meantime, just relish Iran's 2-1 victory over America, and
Yugoslavia's surprise 2-2 draw against favourites Germany for some truly
satisfying politics of identity.
-- 
Jim heartfield