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

[John W.]

On Sat, May 13, 2017 at 4:56 PM, David Green via Peace <
peace at lists.chambana.net> wrote:

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2017/04/20/pseu-a20.html
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> This is the correct link--
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So....the same one that Carl had at the bottom of his post?



> On Saturday, May 13, 2017 4:36 PM, C. G. Estabrook via Peace-discuss <
> peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
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> [Last month the journal 'Historical Materialism' presented a forum at
> New York University. Here's a description from <wsws.org>.]
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> ...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.
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> 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.”
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> 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.
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> <https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2017/04/20/pseu-a20.html>
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