[lbo-talk] Taibbi (was Re: Fwd: Antioch College Closing!)

[Carl Remick]

>From: Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu>
>
>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.

Nope.  I think identity politics marked the end of class struggle -- that it 
coopted the legitimate grievances of women and minorities and got them to 
*buy into* the capitalist system rather than demand its replacement with 
genuinely egalitarian socialism.

Carl

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