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The Uses and Abuses of Identity Politics

The Uses and Abuses of Identity Politics

FromThe Regrettable Century


The Uses and Abuses of Identity Politics

FromThe Regrettable Century

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Length:
71 minutes
Released:
Mar 4, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

This week Jenny makes the case that there are "good" and bad types of identity politics and we discuss the redeemable and irredeemable aspects of them. Ultimately, we come to conclusions that are sure to get us canceled by workerists and idpol-libs alike. Which... doesn't matter because will have all been boiled alive by rising oceans of acidic seawater long before we ever figure any of this out.  Combahee River Collective Statement :http://circuitous.org/scraps/combahee.htmlAsad Haider: 'Eight Theses on Identity' http://salvage.zone/Haider, Asad. Mistaken identity : race and class in the age of Trump. London Brooklyn, NY: Verso, 2018.Support the show
Released:
Mar 4, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

The old forms of the left are moribund and the new forms are stupid. We're making a podcast that discusses the need to organize a dialectical pessimism and develop a Marxist salvage project capable of putting up a good fight as the world burns around us. A clean, honest, and unsentimental melancholy is required; we are cultivating one and would like to share it with you.