<div dir="ltr"><p style="margin:0.5em 0px;font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">In order to learn a critical and self-reflexive approach in this subject, you may look to critique and contextualization from various sources:</p><ul style="margin:0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em;padding:0px;font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px"><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">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.</li></ul><ul style="margin:0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em;padding:0px;font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px"><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">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.</li><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">Center-left African-American critique: James McWhorter, Coleman Hugues</li></ul><div><font face="sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px"><br></span></font></div><div><h2 style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-image:none;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-weight:normal;margin:1em 0px 0.25em;overflow:hidden;padding:0px;border-bottom:1px solid rgb(162,169,177);font-family:"Linux Libertine",Georgia,Times,serif;line-height:1.3"><span class="gmail-mw-headline" id="gmail-Key_Articles">Key Articles</span><span class="gmail-mw-editsection" style="font-size:small;margin-left:1em;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1em;font-family:sans-serif"><span class="gmail-mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/index.php?title=Category:Identity_Politics&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Key Articles" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background:none">edit</a><span class="gmail-mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2><h3 style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-image:none;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0.3em 0px 0px;overflow:hidden;padding-top:0.5em;padding-bottom:0px;border-bottom:0px;font-size:1.2em;line-height:1.6;font-family:sans-serif"><span class="gmail-mw-headline" id="gmail-Introductions">Introductions</span><span class="gmail-mw-editsection" style="font-size:small;font-weight:normal;margin-left:1em;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1em"><span class="gmail-mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/index.php?title=Category:Identity_Politics&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Introductions" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background:none">edit</a><span class="gmail-mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3><p style="margin:0.5em 0px;font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">As recommended by the site, <a class="external gmail-text" href="http://socialjusticeevolution.org/" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(102,51,102);background-color:initial;padding-right:13px">Social Justice Evolution</a></p><ul style="margin:0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em;padding:0px;font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px"><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">"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, “<a class="external gmail-text" href="https://areomagazine.com/2018/09/25/identity-politics-does-not-continue-the-work-of-the-civil-rights-movements/" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(102,51,102);background-color:initial;padding-right:13px">Identity Politics Does Not Continue the Work of the Civil Rights Movements</a>”.</li></ul><ul style="margin:0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em;padding:0px;font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px"><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">"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 <a class="external gmail-text" href="https://newdiscourses.com/2020/04/universal-social-justice-alternative-critical-social-justice/" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(102,51,102);background-color:initial;padding-right:13px">Universal Social Justice</a>: A Necessary Alternative to Critical Social Justice.</li></ul><p style="margin:0.5em 0px;font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px"><br></p><h3 style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-image:none;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0.3em 0px 0px;overflow:hidden;padding-top:0.5em;padding-bottom:0px;border-bottom:0px;font-size:1.2em;line-height:1.6;font-family:sans-serif"><span class="gmail-mw-headline" id="gmail-More_detailed_considerations">More detailed considerations</span><span class="gmail-mw-editsection" style="font-size:small;font-weight:normal;margin-left:1em;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1em"><span class="gmail-mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/index.php?title=Category:Identity_Politics&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: More detailed considerations" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background:none">edit</a><span class="gmail-mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3><ul style="margin:0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em;padding:0px;font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px"><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em"><a class="external gmail-text" href="https://medium.com/@stangoff/getting-back-on-track-race-and-class-3b24e128770f" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(102,51,102);background-color:initial;padding-right:13px">How race and class are related</a>. By Stan Goff. <b>(recommended)</b></li></ul><ul style="margin:0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em;padding:0px;font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px"><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">A very good introduction of the issues raised, by Micha Narberhaus: <a href="https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Critiquing_the_Dogmatic_Versions_of_Group_Identity_Theory" title="Critiquing the Dogmatic Versions of Group Identity Theory" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background:none">Critiquing the Dogmatic Versions of Group Identity Theory</a></li></ul><ul style="margin:0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em;padding:0px;font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px"><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">A must-read and one of the first progressive call to arms: Mark Fisher's <a href="https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Vampires%E2%80%99_Castle" title="Vampires’ Castle" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background:none">Vampires’ Castle</a></li></ul><ul style="margin:0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em;padding:0px;font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px"><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em"><a href="https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Social_Justice_Ideology_Does_Not_Foster_Egalitarianism" title="Social Justice Ideology Does Not Foster Egalitarianism" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background:none">Social Justice Ideology Does Not Foster Egalitarianism</a>. By Michael Rectenwald <a class="external gmail-autonumber" href="https://www.michaelrectenwald.com/essays/2019/4/10/libertarianisms-versus-postmodernism-and-social-justice-ideology" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(102,51,102);background-color:initial;padding-right:13px">[14]</a></li></ul><ul style="margin:0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em;padding:0px;font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px"><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em"><a class="external gmail-text" href="https://quillette.com/2020/01/14/reflections-on-intersectionality/?" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(102,51,102);background-color:initial;padding-right:13px">Reflections on Intersectionality</a></li></ul><ul style="margin:0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em;padding:0px;font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px"><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">An <a href="https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Open_Letter_of_the_Non-Identitarian_Left_to_the_Misunderstanding_Right" title="Open Letter of the Non-Identitarian Left to the Misunderstanding Right" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background:none">Open Letter of the Non-Identitarian Left to the Misunderstanding Right</a></li></ul><ul style="margin:0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em;padding:0px;font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px"><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">The <a class="external gmail-text" href="https://newrepublic.com/article/154996/myth-class-reductionism" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(102,51,102);background-color:initial;padding-right:13px">Myth of Class Reductionism</a>. 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 <a class="external gmail-text" href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/341401991_Socialism_and_the_Argument_against_Race_Reductionism" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(102,51,102);background-color:initial;padding-right:13px">Argument against Race Reductionism</a> ; By Adolph Reed; New Labor Forum 29(2):36-43 ; May 2020</li></ul><h2 style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-image:none;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-weight:normal;margin:1em 0px 0.25em;overflow:hidden;padding:0px;border-bottom:1px solid rgb(162,169,177);font-family:"Linux Libertine",Georgia,Times,serif;line-height:1.3"><span class="gmail-mw-headline" id="gmail-Key_Books">Key Books</span><span class="gmail-mw-editsection" style="font-size:small;margin-left:1em;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1em;font-family:sans-serif"><span class="gmail-mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/index.php?title=Category:Identity_Politics&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Key Books" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background:none">edit</a><span class="gmail-mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2><ul style="margin:0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em;padding:0px;font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px"><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">Springtime for Snowflakes: "Social Justice" and Its Postmodern Parentage. By Michael Rectenwald.,New English Review Press, 2018 <a class="external gmail-autonumber" href="https://www.michaelrectenwald.com/" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(102,51,102);background-color:initial;padding-right:13px">[15]</a>; see our entry: The <a href="https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Social_Justice_Movement_and_Its_Postmodern_Parentage" title="Social Justice Movement and Its Postmodern Parentage" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background:none">Social Justice Movement and Its Postmodern Parentage</a></li></ul><ul style="margin:0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em;padding:0px;font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px"><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">Toward Freedom. The <a class="external gmail-text" href="https://www.versobooks.com/books/3166-toward-freedom" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(102,51,102);background-color:initial;padding-right:13px">Case Against Race Reductionism</a>. 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."</li></ul></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>P2P Foundation: <a href="http://p2pfoundation.net" target="_blank">http://wiki.p2pfoundation.net</a>  - <a href="http://blog.p2pfoundation.net" target="_blank">http://blog.p2pfoundation.net</a> <br><br>Discuss: <a href="http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation" target="_blank">http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation</a><br><br>Updates: ; <a href="http://twitter.com/mbauwens" target="_blank">http://twitter.com/mbauwens</a>; <a href="http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens" target="_blank">http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens</a></div><div><br></div><div>Curation of news on p2p/commons developments: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/p2p.open/" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/groups/p2p.open/</a><br><br><br><br><br></div></div></div></div>