I am more into Bookchin than I am into Marxism, but you all have to check out Adolph Reed's critiques of identity politics. Identitarians are BTFO, and he points out how the hypocritical identitarians capitulate to essentialism.
Quote from "The Limits of Anti-Racism":
"Yes, racism exists, as a conceptual condensation of practices and ideas that reproduce, or seek to reproduce, hierarchy along lines defined by race. Apostles of antiracism frequently can’t hear this sort of statement, because in their exceedingly simplistic version of the nexus of race and injustice there can be only the Manichean dichotomy of those who admit racism’s existence and those who deny it. There can be only Todd Gitlin (the sociologist and former SDS leader who has become, both fairly and as caricature, the symbol of a “class-first” line) and their own heroic, truth-telling selves, and whoever is not the latter must be the former. Thus the logic of straining to assign guilt by association substitutes for argument.
My position is—and I can’t count the number of times I’ve said this bluntly, yet to no avail, in response to those in blissful thrall of the comforting Manicheanism—that of course racism persists, in all the disparate, often unrelated kinds of social relations and “attitudes” that are characteristically lumped together under that rubric, but from the standpoint of trying to figure out how to combat even what most of us would agree is racial inequality and injustice, that acknowledgement and $2.25 will get me a ride on the subway. It doesn’t lend itself to any particular action except more taxonomic argument about what counts as racism."
"The essentialism cuts in odd ways in this saga. Sometimes race is real in a way that sex is not – you’re black only if you meet the biological criteria (whatever they’re supposed to be) for blackness. And sometimes, as in Talusan’s failure to distinguish gender from sex typing, gender is "real" in a way that race is not. "Doctors don’t announce our race or color when we are born; they announce our gender." I assume Talusan is referring to the stereotypical moment in the delivery room. Technically, though, the doctor announces the child’s sex type, not its culturally constructed gender roles. And when exactly does Talusan presume race is determined and by whom? I’m pretty sure that in most of the United States it’s still marked on one’s birth certificate. That’s not the delivery room, but it’s pretty damn close."
Boom
Jordan Williams
based
Luke Hernandez
Reed uses some very odd vocabulary at times that makes me think he's trying too hard to sound smart.
Wyatt Howard
He writes like an academic, yes. It's a bit tedious, but his work is rewarding to study as they have a lot of insight.
Nathaniel Anderson
That's some quote-worthy writing, alright.
On how "antiracists" converse with you plebs: I think this also applies to pomo "Marxists" who call theory their writing that doesn't model or predict anything.
On the goal of the "antiracists":
On how the "antiracists" fight:
On the question who benefits from "antiracism":
Andrew Long
I'm pretty sure this guy doesn't exist, because only white men could ever possibly criticize idpol.
Eli Garcia
I don't support identity politics but I will vote for FN. It has gotten out of hand, and I just don't feel safe anymore.
