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.
It absolutely has meaning. It’s like rainbow capitalism. It is ridiculed here on this site all the time and is a prime example of how liberalism prioritizes the PR campaigniness of proving they are doing good vs actually doing anything good at all. We are in the deep end of it and it’s fucking wild.
Idk I’ve only ever seen reactionaries whinge about it, to me it’s practically meaningless because it’s not really an effective critique of capitalism, or liberalism in general. It’s the same class of words like “woke,” “SJW,” “PC” etc.
You already mentioned “rainbow capitalism” and that’s already a better word for it because it at least describes it a bit better. That’s just me though
It turns out the word dates back to leftists in the 70s, regardless, I’ve never seen it used in serious discussion in leftist spaces because it’s usually the fascists that are complaining about it
Identity politics is a vague term for any political discourse/movements centering race, gender, sexuality, etc. BLM is idpol. Palestinian nationalism is idpol. Feminism is idpol. Trans rights movements are idpol. Engaging in idpol doesn’t mean you can’t recognize class and intersectionality.
It absolutely has meaning. It’s like rainbow capitalism. It is ridiculed here on this site all the time and is a prime example of how liberalism prioritizes the PR campaigniness of proving they are doing good vs actually doing anything good at all. We are in the deep end of it and it’s fucking wild.
Idk I’ve only ever seen reactionaries whinge about it, to me it’s practically meaningless because it’s not really an effective critique of capitalism, or liberalism in general. It’s the same class of words like “woke,” “SJW,” “PC” etc.
You already mentioned “rainbow capitalism” and that’s already a better word for it because it at least describes it a bit better. That’s just me though
They keep inventing new words, meanwhile we stay with 1800s ahh words like “Bourgeoisie” “ruling class”, this is why we’re based
Yeah we should use “globalist” and “cultural Marxist” too right?
It turns out the word dates back to leftists in the 70s, regardless, I’ve never seen it used in serious discussion in leftist spaces because it’s usually the fascists that are complaining about it
Identity politics is a vague term for any political discourse/movements centering race, gender, sexuality, etc. BLM is idpol. Palestinian nationalism is idpol. Feminism is idpol. Trans rights movements are idpol. Engaging in idpol doesn’t mean you can’t recognize class and intersectionality.