Even though identity politics is usually associated with the Left, both by friends and foes, this kind of politics may well be ‘the narcissism of the aspiring bourgeoisie, who want to get their share of the “capitalist pie”, including their share of “respect” as reflected in language and culture’ – and likewise for the concept of equity so common and so often defended these days, which is not really a liberal principle per se, but more of a neoliberal keyword: no universal social programs to be set up, but instead we shall have micro-interventions here and there that can only produce a more ethnically diverse elite.
Under these conditions, inequality and capitalism remain untouched, class politics unmentioned, the result a Left without the economics or the socialism, and on we go with elite representation and such worries.
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Good assessment.
Under these conditions, inequality and capitalism remain untouched, class politics unmentioned, the result a Left without the economics or the socialism, and on we go with elite representation and such worries.
Universality Over Diversity (Or, Rather, Diversity Within Universality) - 3 Quarks Daily
by David J. LobinaFor someone who sees himself as a person of the Left, at least in the sense in which the political right and left were conceptualised by
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Good assessment.