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 seems like they make the same mistakes the sections of the Second International made when it came to national rebellions. They want pure social revolutions, ignoring the fact that in a colonized country, the social revolution is in part a national struggle. Now the national struggle can separate itself more or less from the social one, or at least attempt to in important decisions.
It seems like they make the same mistakes the sections of the Second International made when it came to national rebellions. They want pure social revolutions, ignoring the fact that in a colonized country, the social revolution is in part a national struggle. Now the national struggle can separate itself more or less from the social one, or at least attempt to in important decisions.