Maoism with American Characteristics
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The Rise of Identity Marxism
The working class isn't just made complacent and quote one dimensional in this way but also conservative and even counter revolutionary. Markusa's solution is to seek out a new working class, a new proletarian class that has the vital needs for revolution. Identity Marxism including the radicalism of the Combahee River Collective and the intersectionality of Kim Crenshaw actually gets its start with Markusa’s radical suggestion to abandon class identity for other types of identity and to forge them together. The ministers of this mentality to the racial minority, sexual minorities, feminists and so on in Markusa's view would be college students.
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