[Peace-discuss] "Between the World and Me" as neoliberal identity politics

[C. G. Estabrook]

http://www.lrb.co.uk/v37/n23/thomas-chatterton-williams/loaded-dice

Adolph Reed: "[Identity] politics is not an alternative to class politics; it is a class politics, the politics of the left-wing of neoliberalism. It is the expression and active agency of a political order and moral economy in which capitalist market forces are treated as unassailable nature.

"An integral element of that moral economy is displacement of the critique of the invidious outcomes produced by capitalist class power onto equally naturalized categories of ascriptive identity that sort us into groups supposedly defined by what we essentially are rather than what we do." 

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