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Postmodern Conservatism: Reactionary Politics in Late Capitalism

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Identity Politics Against the Class Based Left

In your book, you talk about how some of these ideas that come out of just broadly speaking, post modern theory are centered around identity politics. We find ourselves with this weird outcome where a neo liberals in defence of the status quo, will then weaponize identity politics against the class based and anti imperialist left. You'll hear people who are supporters of bite and call people who are maybe skeptical about supporting bidan privileged for not doing so. So i do just want to point out that i don't think this is unique even to the centre. The kind of micro politics of what david harvey calls militant particularism has a lot of radical potential when it cut forr getting groups that have traditionally

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