With essays by today’s leading leftist social critics, Identity Trumps Socialism presents a rigorous and persuasive primer on the problems generated by postmodern and neoliberal challenges to the legacy of emancipatory universality. In addition to the ways in which capitalism has used racialized and gendered forms of oppression to divide the working class, today’s activism must also understand how neoliberal capitalism uses identity politics to undermine socialism. Identity Trumps Socialism advances an emancipatory left universality that addresses the limits of diversity and makes the case for the centrality of class in the struggle against global capitalist hegemony.
Author(s): Marc James Léger
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 216
City: New York
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction: The Politics of Emancipatory Universality
Chapter 1 Eight Theses on the Universal
Chapter 2 Politics, Identification and Subjectivization
Chapter 3 The Eternal Return of the Same Class Struggle
Chapter 4 Universality and Its Discontents
Chapter 5 Capitalism, Class and Universalism: Escaping the Cul-de-sac of Postcolonial Theory
Chapter 6 Intersectionality: A Marxist Critique
Chapter 7 From Progressive Neoliberalism to Trump – and Beyond
Chapter 8 What Materialist Black Political History Actually Looks Like
Chapter 9 Who’s Afraid of Left Populism?: Anti-Policing Struggles and the Frontiers of the American Left
Chapter 10 Class Not Race
Chapter 11 Capitalism Is the Problem: Articulating Race and Gender with Class
Chapter 12 A Comrade for the Anthropocene: Beyond Survivors and Allies
Chapter 13 The Use and Abuse of Class Reductionism for the Left
Index
