natalunasans reblogged
In the United States, the intersections of race and class are rarely, if ever, mutually exclusive.
“[T]he whole question of “serious class politics versus post-modern liberal identity politics” is a false one. The crusade against intersectionality means abandoning class politics for liberalism in theoretical terms, and it has nothing useful to say about practical questions of organising for class struggle. It’s not about class politics versus identity politics: it’s just a choice between an approach to the class struggle that starts from people’s lived experiences, which in turn means taking into account all the different identities which affect those experiences, or a toothless, abstract liberal universalism.”
– Against Liberalism, for Intersectional Class Politics | Beyond Resistance