[lbo-talk] How identity politics unites the right and left....

[Mike Ballard]

"ndeed, their invisibility is a kind of image of neoliberalism, of the
replacement of class struggle by unorganized uprisings and class
consciousness by the fragmented identitarianism of a deeply fissured
salariat. Although this problematic gets articulated differently in
different countries, the question of the "surplus population" in all
its declensions (the unemployed, the impoverished, immigrants, the
excluded, the underclass, the insecurely employed, etc.) finds itself
at the heart of both public and expert debate on the economy, on the
left and on the right in the decades following the 1980s. The
transformations of the period go beyond the issue of how the economy
is organized to the issue of how the social question will be asked in
the future. Indeed, in debates that are as much intellectual as
political, the new centrality of the "excluded" or the "underclass"
not only changes the terms of the problem but also of what can count
as a solution."

full: http://nonsite.org/feature/when-exclusion-replaces-exploitation

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