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Author: Marc James Léger
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint: Routledge
Weight: 0.453kg
ISBN: 9781032751580
ISBN 10: 1032751584
Pages: 268
Publication Date: 03 June 2024
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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"""Class Struggle and Identity Politics provides a comprehensive overview of the debate between socialist and identity politics, convincingly showing why the former, rather the latter, must serve as the groundwork for any truly emancipatory politics. Required reading for anyone who wants to understand how the neoliberal obsession with identity has reduced ostensibly leftist politics from materialism to moralism, from macropolitics to micropolitics, and from solidarity to difference – and what is to be done about it!"" Russell Sbriglia, Associate Professor of Literature Studies at Seton Hall University and co-editor with Slavoj Žižek of Subject Lessons: Hegel, Lacan, and the Future of Materialism ""Marc James Léger’s unwavering intervention recentres the primacy of class struggle in any project with emancipatory aspirations. Against the pitfalls of culture wars and the traps of both wokeism and anti-wokeism, this book makes resolutely clear that a Marxism worthy of the name must shed its self-defeating attachment to identity politics and affirm in an uncompromised fashion a universal politics."" Zahi Zalloua is Professor of Philosophy and Literature at Whitman College and author of Solidarity and the Palestinian Cause: Indigeneity, Blackness, and the Promise of Universality"
""Class Struggle and Identity Politics provides a comprehensive overview of the debate between socialist and identity politics, convincingly showing why the former, rather the latter, must serve as the groundwork for any truly emancipatory politics. Required reading for anyone who wants to understand how the neoliberal obsession with identity has reduced ostensibly leftist politics from materialism to moralism, from macropolitics to micropolitics, and from solidarity to difference – and what is to be done about it!"" Russell Sbriglia, Associate Professor of Literature Studies at Seton Hall University, and co-editor with Slavoj Žižek of Subject Lessons: Hegel, Lacan, and the Future of Materialism ""Marc James Léger’s unwavering intervention recentres the primacy of class struggle in any project with emancipatory aspirations. Against the pitfalls of culture wars and the traps of both wokeism and anti-wokeism, this book makes resolutely clear that a Marxism worthy of the name must shed its self-defeating attachment to identity politics and affirm in an uncompromised fashion a universal politics."" Zahi Zalloua, Professor of Philosophy and Literature at Whitman College, and author of Solidarity and the Palestinian Cause: Indigeneity, Blackness, and the Promise of Universality
Author Information
Marc James Léger is a Marxist cultural theorist living in Montreal. He is the author of Bernie Bros Gone Woke: Class, Identity, Neoliberalism (2022), as well as Too Black to Fail: The Obama Portraits and the Politics of Post-Representation (2022), and editor of Identity Trumps Socialism: The Class and Identity Debate after Neoliberalism (Routledge, 2023).
