[lbo-talk] diverity, City-style

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed Oct 28 09:21:20 PDT 2009


On Oct 28, 2009, at 12:04 PM, Eric Beck wrote:


> On 10/28/09, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
>
>> Fund to invest in gender diversity
>> By Richard Milne
>> Published: October 26 2009 02:00 | Last updated: October 26 2009
>> 02:00
>
> I've been meaning to ask you this: Since you've said repeatedly in the
> past that capital is able to recuperate/use/profit from everything,
> which I agree with, why the invective against identity politics? That
> is, if capital is supple enough to co-opt any politics, why do
> antiracists earn such harsh denunciations -- even, in Michaels's case,
> hatred -- when their failures are in the end no different from other
> political movements'? They failed, so what? Every movement does.

I'd answer your questions if they bore any relation to anything I've said or believe.

Doug



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