Recently reissued: The Rainbow Challenge (Excerpt)
October 1, 2026
"Jesse Jackson’s first presidential primary race in 1984 should have been a wakeup call for the Democratic Party...."Tag: Identity politics
Excerpt: Difference, Exploitation & Emancipation (Editor of The Dialectics of Dependency, in Decolonizing Then and Now, forthcoming in 2023)
February 20, 2024
Decolonial projects did not simply dwell on a race-first, class-first or even gender-first line of thought which so appeals today. What some might call “identity politics” today was not a dead end for class-based projects of liberation; it was a necessary and generative start to the practice of solidarity and unity....
Taking the measure of neoliberal capitalism (Populist Register reviews ‘Socialist Register 2022)
February 20, 2024
'Socialist Register 2022' delivers thought-provoking analysis of the factors and forces driving multiple polarizations in our world, including identities of nation and race, social class and political parties, the coronavirus pandemic and climate catastrophe. That is a partial list.