[Peace] Identity politics poses the danger of irrelevancy to the anti-war movement

[C. G. Estabrook]

[Last month the journal 'Historical Materialism' presented a forum at 
New York University. Here's a description from <wsws.org>.]

...Of the 60 scheduled panels, not a single one relates to the subject 
of war. The words “imperialism,” “war,” “Iraq,” “North Korea,” 
“Afghanistan,” “Libya” and “Somalia” do not appear in any panel title.

Instead, the NYU panel features discussion topics such as “Queer(ing) 
Marxism,” “Women’s Strikes in the Age of Feminization,” “The 
International Women’s Strike and the Anticapitalist Feminist Movement,” 
“Silencing the Subaltern: Resistance & Gender in Postcolonial Theory,” 
“Concerning Violence: Subjections, Resistance, Subversions,” “Adorno: 
Subjectivity and Critique,” “New Directions in Marxist/Feminist Theory,” 
“Race, Repetition, Rebellion: The Political Economy of Surplus,” and 
“Late Althusser: Politics and Theoretical Practice.”

Any connections that the radicalized middle class once had to 
anti-imperialism or socialism are long gone. The categories of analysis 
they employ have nothing to do with class or historical materialism. 
War, social inequality and poverty all take a back seat to what really 
interests them: race, gender and their own sex lives.

<https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2017/04/20/pseu-a20.html>