Since the 1980s, the traditional views of the left (dominated by Marxist parties) were challenged by the New Left and Post-Modernism. This led to the emergence of issue-based identity politics that was supported by civil society, NGOs, and also scores of young people educated in the West in the last three decades. This new politics has had a huge influence, not in fracturing and destroying the left in the West but also in impacting struggles in Pakistan.
In this video, I examine three core themes of identity politics - axis of privilege, authenticity, and anti-essentialism - and show how these ideas result in a mass of interminable self-contradictions and self-defeating strategies.
Note: This Lecture was recorded in Jan. 2020, So Any Reference to Events & News is not to be confused with Recent ones.
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