Identity Politics Is a Poor Substitute for Socialism

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Identity Politics Is a Poor Substitute for Socialism

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StupIDPol: A based critique of essentialism@lemmy.basedcount.comEnglish · 2 years ago

In No Politics but Class Politics, Walter Benn Michaels and Adolph Reed show how an identity politics that obscures class politics and ignores economic inequality only makes the many miseries around us worse.

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