> Although not directly related to technology per se I found it related to our current discussions on the polis and inclusion, as well as a > continuing commentary on how the online right operates deftly in ostensibly leftist spaces.
This is completely related to our previous discussion of 'identity politics'. What we're currently witnessing is a rift between a neo-traditionalist socialist political left and an intersectional political left. The former wants to re-focus all political struggle on (traditional) class struggle and the restoration of the welfare state, arguing that the latter can only work as a national state with a restrictive border and immigration regime. This camp dismisses intersectional positions as "liberal". The German "Aufstehen" movement of Sarah Wagenknecht and theater maker Bernd Stegemann belongs into this category, the Dutch political thinker Ewald Engelen and the Dutch Socialist Party. (I'm sure there are more examples, these are only the ones I'm most familiar with.) Movements like Bernie Sanders' and Jeremy Corbyn's seemingly attempt to reconcile both positions, but clearly focus their agenda on traditionalist class struggle (with Corbyn taking an unclear position towards Brexit). I see Angela in the traditionalist-socialist camp, too. That doesn't make her part of the "online right". -F
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