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There are some interesting bits, but the writing is just totally scatterbrained, it reads in part like overt appropriation and it seems like no thought survives more than a few pages, sufficient only to vibe towards the general theme. It might be great for some, but it's not for me.
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It's... I'm not sure how to put it. Very mixed bag - some interesting perspectives on what identity politics supposedly looks like to others. In other sections, what is described feels completely alien to what I understand as identity politics in every day activism. For some reason, identity politics addressing capitalism is antisemitic, there is even an argument that identify politics in some forms is authoritarian and inherently antisemitic (which, I guess if one includes right wing perspectives would be accurate, but that's not what is implied). In the end, the author seems to argue identity is politically central and therefore rejects classical Marxist arguments that identity politics is just a distraction - and ends with a plea that identity political needs Utopias beyond neoliberal acceptance and must become anti-capitalist again (which I'm not sure where this person is looking, but both seem inherent to radical left - maybe it's …
It's... I'm not sure how to put it. Very mixed bag - some interesting perspectives on what identity politics supposedly looks like to others. In other sections, what is described feels completely alien to what I understand as identity politics in every day activism. For some reason, identity politics addressing capitalism is antisemitic, there is even an argument that identify politics in some forms is authoritarian and inherently antisemitic (which, I guess if one includes right wing perspectives would be accurate, but that's not what is implied). In the end, the author seems to argue identity is politically central and therefore rejects classical Marxist arguments that identity politics is just a distraction - and ends with a plea that identity political needs Utopias beyond neoliberal acceptance and must become anti-capitalist again (which I'm not sure where this person is looking, but both seem inherent to radical left - maybe it's intended as a critique of the moderate left, but it's my understanding that identity politics is almost exclusively a radical left phenomenon with close ties to anarchism, maybe my assessment is off there).
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@homohortus@mastodon.social I finished it some time ago and was disappointed. The introduction to Marxism in the first sections seemed very good, but I think the author lacks a grounded understanding of datacenter operations and this leads to bad interpretations from an otherwise interesting idea. I also briefly discussed the book with a political scientist, who told me that Varoufakis' definition of feudalism is off, but I'm not enough of an expert to judge this myself.
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