Mike Macnair

Abstract

This article argues that “intersectionality” is at the end of the day derived from the People’s Front policy of the 1930s Comintern, as modified by late 1960s–1970s “soft Maoism,” and then adopted in the late 1970s–1980s by the political representatives of US capital as an ideological colouration for the growth of economic inequality under financialisation. In the result, the project is self-defeating, giving way to “white identity politics” and similar formations.

Keywords

Intersectionality, Class, Feminism, Race, Stalinism

From: Critique 2018 46 (4)

Editor: Wang Yi