Identity Trumps Socialism: The Class and Identity Debate after Neoliberalism

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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. 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