[P2P-F] Understanding the Successor Ideology, part 2, articles

Thu Nov 19 14:08:17 CET 2020

In order to learn a critical and self-reflexive approach in this subject,
you may look to critique and contextualization from various sources:

   - on the radical left, current critics have been the people working
   around Jacobin magazine (Ben Burgis, Bhaskar Sunkara); with people like
   webcaster Michael Brooks (identified as 'integral left'), and from the
   radical wing of the black African-American left, with researchers on class
   and race such as Adolphe and Toure Reed. Also radical philosophers and
   journalistic commentators such as Glenn Greenwald, Slavoj Zizek, Chomsky,
   and Matt Taibi belong to this broad camp, which was initiated with the
   Vampire Castle essay of Marc Fisher, listed below. (see also the Dyab Abou
   Jahah quote). There is also strong critique emanating from the radical
   feminist camp.

   - on the center left (in the U.S. often called the 'liberal left'),
   there are several groups active: 1) the group of Grievance scholars, i.e.
   Helen Pluckrose, James Lindsay and Peter Boghossian which focuses on the
   genealogy of the current identitiarian ideology (New Discourses; Aero
   magazine); 2) the group around Brett Weinstein, Heather Heying, and Eric
   Weinstein (Dark Horse Podcast, the Portal); 3) the group around Rebel
   Wisdom documentary network and journalist David Fuller.
   - Center-left African-American critique: James McWhorter, Coleman Hugues

Key Articles[edit
<https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/index.php?title=Category:Identity_Politics&action=edit&section=16>
]Introductions[edit
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]

As recommended by the site, Social Justice Evolution
<http://socialjusticeevolution.org/>

   - "It will be helpful for visitors to this site to begin with the
   distinction between the Civil Rights movements of the 1950’s and 60’s,
   -which were inspired by the principles of universal liberalism- and
   contemporary Critical Social Justice (CSJ) movements, which draw upon a
   different set of principles including social constructivism and group
   identity. For a concise examination of these differences, we recommend the
   essay, “Identity Politics Does Not Continue the Work of the Civil Rights
   Movements
   <https://areomagazine.com/2018/09/25/identity-politics-does-not-continue-the-work-of-the-civil-rights-movements/>
   ”.

   - "It will also be helpful to understand the distinction between the
   general principles of social justice -which most people rightly support-
   and the specific ideology that many are now calling Critical Social
   Justice. For a brief primer on this distinction, we recommend this short
   essay by Rohan Loveland called Universal Social Justice
   <https://newdiscourses.com/2020/04/universal-social-justice-alternative-critical-social-justice/>:
   A Necessary Alternative to Critical Social Justice.

More detailed considerations[edit
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]

   - How race and class are related
   <https://medium.com/@stangoff/getting-back-on-track-race-and-class-3b24e128770f>.
   By Stan Goff. *(recommended)*

   - A very good introduction of the issues raised, by Micha
Narberhaus: Critiquing
   the Dogmatic Versions of Group Identity Theory
   <https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Critiquing_the_Dogmatic_Versions_of_Group_Identity_Theory>

   - A must-read and one of the first progressive call to arms: Mark
   Fisher's Vampires’ Castle
   <https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Vampires%E2%80%99_Castle>

   - Social Justice Ideology Does Not Foster Egalitarianism
   <https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Social_Justice_Ideology_Does_Not_Foster_Egalitarianism>.
   By Michael Rectenwald [14]
   <https://www.michaelrectenwald.com/essays/2019/4/10/libertarianisms-versus-postmodernism-and-social-justice-ideology>

   - Reflections on Intersectionality
   <https://quillette.com/2020/01/14/reflections-on-intersectionality/?>

   - An Open Letter of the Non-Identitarian Left to the Misunderstanding
   Right
   <https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Open_Letter_of_the_Non-Identitarian_Left_to_the_Misunderstanding_Right>

   - The Myth of Class Reductionism
   <https://newrepublic.com/article/154996/myth-class-reductionism>. By
   Adolph Reed: "Centrist Democrats and left-identitarians are bound in shared
   embrace of a particularist, elite-driven politics .. This .. political
   vision, - at the expense of long-term, movement-driven, majoritarian
   strategies at all levels of government — threatens to preempt hopes of
   restoring the public-good model of governance that was at the heart of
   postwar prosperity and foundational to the civil rights movement." ; see
   also: The Argument against Race Reductionism
   <https://www.researchgate.net/publication/341401991_Socialism_and_the_Argument_against_Race_Reductionism>
;
   By Adolph Reed; New Labor Forum 29(2):36-43 ; May 2020

Key Books[edit
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   - Springtime for Snowflakes: "Social Justice" and Its Postmodern
   Parentage. By Michael Rectenwald.,New English Review Press, 2018 [15]
   <https://www.michaelrectenwald.com/>; see our entry: The Social Justice
   Movement and Its Postmodern Parentage
   <https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Social_Justice_Movement_and_Its_Postmodern_Parentage>

   - Toward Freedom. The Case Against Race Reductionism
   <https://www.versobooks.com/books/3166-toward-freedom>. by Touré F.
   Reed. Verso, : " the road to a more just society for African Americans and
   everyone else, the fate of poor and working-class African Americans is
   inextricably linked to that of other poor and working-class Americans."

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