Class Struggle and Identity Politics

"""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"