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the_dunk_tank@hexbear.netEnglish · 7 months ago

Identity Politics Is a Poor Substitute for Socialism

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Identity Politics Is a Poor Substitute for Socialism

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the_dunk_tank@hexbear.netEnglish · 7 months 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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I wonder what happened the last time America did something socialist-adjacent, and if any of those benefits reached Black people

oh they didn’t, and they also stole a bunch of Asian people’s land and houses, choke on your vomit and die

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