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Today's Topics:

   1. Re: challenging the identiarian agenda (Kevin Carson)


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Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2018 15:17:51 -0500
From: Kevin Carson <free.market.anticapitalist@gmail.com>
To: P2P Foundation mailing list <p2p-foundation@lists.ourproject.org>
Subject: Re: [P2P-F] challenging the identiarian agenda
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IMO there's a lot of straw here -- from what I've seen in my encounters
with a whole lot of different left tendencies on social media, pure
"identitarianism" is relatively minor. The overwhelming majority of those
fighting for racial and gender justice are thoroughly intersectionalist,
reject a focus on racial and gender identity at the expense of class, and
see racial and gender oppression mutually interacting with and reinforcing
class oppression and serving the interests of capital. To the extent that
anyone in the real world elevates "identity politics" over economics and
class, it's center-left establishment interests like supporters of Clinton.
Intersectional theory was actually invented to counter the pure
identitarian movements of the 1970s (like Second Wave feminism).

And if there's anything that's guaranteed to set off the "mansplaining"
radar of women and POC and actively alienate them, it's an article by a
white guy trying to explain that structural racism and patriarchy are
really not all that bad.

In short, this article is an attempt to "fix" something that mostly doesn't
exist outside the imaginations of brocialists like Freddie DeBoer, and it
will be incredibly counter-productive in its effects. If anything, creating
a dichotomy between identity and class will directly serve the interests of
capital by creating new racial and gender tensions in the economic justice
movement and making it easier, not harder, to fissure economic and class
justice movements along  racial and gender lines.

On Thu, Jul 5, 2018 at 1:33 AM, Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004@gmail.com>
wrote:

> I recommend reading this important essay by Micha Narberhaus,  I would
> also like to republish on our blog (advocacy is in cc)
>
> See http://smart-csos.org/blog-on-theory-and-practice/
> 210-why-we-need-to-switch-the-story
>
> The essay deals with what I consider the serious exagerrations and
> one-sidedness of the identitarian left, and how it settles on an exclusive
> narrative based on oppression and discrimation at the detriment of more
> integrative approaches.
>
> Here is a very thoughtful treatment that aims to create balance in
> transitional strategies,
>
> Michel