Talk:Identity politics

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Edited in the spirit of contextualizing the emergence of modern "left" identity politics in America and clarifying the uneasy, ambivalent relationship between the identity politics based New Left and the Marxist Left. But history has spoken. Marxism has virtually disappeared from the American political landscape and racial/gender identity politics has become influential in the mainstream discourse (although its true level of support among the American public is open to question).— Unsigned, by: 75.111.20.66 / talk / contribs 23:02, 29 May 2014‎ (UTC)

[edit] Proposed improvements

Just two suggestions: Could we potentially make the section 'Social Constructivism' a page in it's own right? I think it requires more exposition than what it's limited amount gives, and what it gives is few different perspectives crammed together (Like Marxism and Deconstruction Theorists) The second suggestion is tweaking the conclusion as it doesn't read as if it follows from the text that it's just a 'far left/right' problem, and also encompassing the 'Far Left' Marxist critique of it. In the UK we tend to criticize Left Unity as the Identity Politics of Marxists. The Article is good for historical analysis (Some points could do with more citations such as the 'gay is the new black' paragraph) and I think we're onto a winner with it. R.Wulfe (talk) 13:37, 22 June 2014 (UTC)

I say go for it! ·FemiliskFU 07:00, 23 June 2014 (UTC)

[edit] Restored parts of the BON's material

At least some of it was relatively on-topic and seemed well-informed. It was tendentious; then again we do tendentious. I've restored a bit of it and added basic references. There may be more worth saving. - Smerdis of Tlön, A ⇒ ¬A. 04:54, 8 February 2015 (UTC)

[edit] I don't know how to feel about this

See reference 10 here: http://www.gurtong.net/ECM/Editorial/tabid/124/ctl/ArticleView/mid/519/articleId/16229/The-Principle-of-Tribocracy-Part-2.aspx --ZooGuard (talk) 09:09, 22 February 2015 (UTC)

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