Identity Trumps Socialism: The Class and Identity Debate after Neoliberalism

by Marc James Leger (Editor)

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.

Genres: Politics

216 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 21, 2023

Reviews

[Slow Reader · Rating 4 out of 5]

mixed bag, some reprintings of old classics, but a nice bundle nonetheless and rather direct salvos which is always appreciated. 4 stars is meaningless in this context but this has no logged ratings atm so anything is better than keeping it at 0.0/5