[lbo-talk] AIDS, Race, and Class

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Mon Feb 12 17:52:10 PST 2007


Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>
> Activism like that shows
> the promise of identity politics but also its limit: it just doesn't
> solve the problem for the poor.

Slight rephrasing. Such tactics work (or can work) for narrowly defined goals. They would work, I suspect, for regaining abortion rights -- even, potentially, for poor women. They just can't be used for large general mass movements, except locally and marginally.

Carrol



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