So let's deal with that shall we?
--- Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:
>
>
> Doug Henwood wrote:
> >
> > On Jun 16, 2007, at 2:19 AM, Joseph Catron wrote:
> >
> > > identity politics war far superior, for their
> purposes, to class
> > > struggle.
> >
> > Damn, I thought this opposition of "class vs.
> identity" had gone the
> > way of the dodo, or at least the 90s.
>
> Indeed. "Identity politics" was a passing fad of the
> '80s, marking the
> end (for the time being) of the struggle politics of
> the 1955-75. Rights
> for gays is NOT identity politics. Anti-lynching is
> NOT identity
> politics. The Black Liberation Movement, the Women's
> Liberation
> Movement, the Gay Liberation Movement, and so forth
> had nothing whatever
> to do with identity politics. It is a stupid phrase
> and should be
> forgotten. All of these movements were forms of
> class struggle, of the
> working-class movement. Opposition to any of these
> movements is
> scabbing.
>
> Carrol
>
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