Full Description
Contemporary bipartisan politics undermines socialist solidarity by ignoring class issues and pitting advocates of social justice against ethno-national chauvinists. This guide to the recent wave of "woke" culture wars provides a radical class analysis and critique of the most popular academic trends around diversity and inclusion: radical democracy, intersectionality, privilege theory, critical race theory and decoloniality. The book further explains the complexity of today's cultural conflicts by examining how these issues are viewed across the political spectrum, including populist and postmodern perspectives. Exploring historical, cultural, political and economic developments since the postwar era, this follow- up to Identity Trumps Socialism provides the reader with everything you wanted to know but were afraid to ask about the campus wars that have gone mainstream.
Contents
Introduction: The Identity of Politics
Part I: Contemporary Variants of Identity Politics
1. Identity Politics
2. Radical Democracy
3. Populism
4. Privilege Theory and Critical Race Theory
5. Intersectionality and Decoloniality
Part II: Diversity Across the Political Spectrum
1. Conservatism and Fascism
2. Liberalism and Neoliberalism
3. Postmodernism
4. Anarchism
5. Social Democracy and Democratic Socialism
6. Socialism and Communism
Part III: Three Caveats Against the Notion of a Postmodern Left
1. The Problem of Anti-Universalism
2. The Difference Between Socialist Politics and Identity Politics
3. Cynicism and Eclectic Materialism
Class, Class, Class
Conclusion: Theses on Class Struggle and Identity Politics
