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Speaking of Identity politics, Working-Class politics have really been identity politics. They have fought to get more power for a very narrowly conceived "working-class." If you believe that the statement, "P is a worker," tells you _anything_ about P as a person, then you are captured by Working-Class Identity politics instead of class politics. Carrol -----Original Message----- From: marxism-bounces+cbcox=ilstu....@lists.econ.utah.edu [mailto:marxism-bounces+cbcox=ilstu....@lists.econ.utah.edu] On Behalf Of David Thorstad Sent: Friday, December 10, 2010 6:18 PM To: cb...@ilstu.edu Subject: [Marxism] The New Anti-capitalist Party and Islamophobia ====================================================================== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. ====================================================================== Arthur Maglin wrote: http://www.sa.org.au/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3028&Itemid=2 13 <http://www.sa.org.au/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3028&Itemid= 213> The majority of the left in France believe that the hijab is an assault on women's rights. This position quickly moves into the prejudice that Muslim women in France are more oppressed than non-Muslim women, that the experience of women in, say, Saudi Arabia is merely an extreme case of an oppression which is inherent in Islam. ====== This brings to mind the lesbian-feminist/separatist success in getting the "G" replaced by the "L" in the increasingly silly and expanding "LGBT2SQIAA etc. etc." acronym. What a problem: How to weigh those oppressions? Among same-sexers, for now at least, the "L" has won out as the supposedly "most oppressed" and thus deserving of first place mention in all cases. This is all silliness from the point of view of any rational approach. Identity politics running amok. Davie ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/cbcox%40ilstu.edu ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
