{"title":"Identity Politics: A Marxist View","authors":"Raju J. Das","doi":"10.25148/CRCP.8.1.008921","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25148/CRCP.8.1.008921","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article has three main sections. In section 1, I discuss what identity politics is and what are its theoretical presuppositions. I also talk about the nature of the political action in identity politics, and about its limits. In section 2, I present my views on Marxist politics, which is centered on the theory and the politics of class, combined with the class-theory and class-politics of anti-oppression. I unpack what I consider are the Marxist notions of ‘the common ground’ and of ‘the majority’, as important components of Marxist politics. The majority, in the Marxist sense, are those who are objectively subjected to class-exploitation. And in terms of the common ground for politics, there are two aspects: a) the majority of people experience one common fate, i.e. they are exploited, and b) this exploited majority are subjected to one or more of the many mechanisms of oppression (race, gender, caste, etc.), all of which represent one experience: attack on democratic rights (or the experience of ‘tyranny’, in Lenin’s sense). In the final section, I conclude the article and draw some implications of my arguments.","PeriodicalId":289058,"journal":{"name":"Class, Race, Corporate Power","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124056533","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"\"Corporate Power, Class Conflict, and the Crisis of the New Globalization\" by Ronald W. Cox, (Lexington Books, 2019) A Review Essay","authors":"Daniel Skidmore-Hess","doi":"10.25148/CRCP.7.2.008925","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25148/CRCP.7.2.008925","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract A review of Ronald W. Cox's \"Corporate Power, Class Conflict, and the Crisis of the New Globalization\" published by Lexington Books, 2019.","PeriodicalId":289058,"journal":{"name":"Class, Race, Corporate Power","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127341521","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“Mass Strikes and Social Movements in Brazil and India: Popular Mobilization in the Long Depression\" by Jörg Novak, (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019) A Review Essay","authors":"Kim Scipes","doi":"10.25148/CRCP.7.2.008924","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25148/CRCP.7.2.008924","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":289058,"journal":{"name":"Class, Race, Corporate Power","volume":"297-301 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130802111","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How the Academy Looks at Marx is all Wrong, the Point However is to Change It","authors":"Daniel Skidmore-Hess","doi":"10.25148/CRCP.7.2.008923","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25148/CRCP.7.2.008923","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In what follows, I note how two standard contemporary reference works describe Marx and then contrast those to Marx’s “auto-bibliography” which presents a different set of texts as important to the author’s self-conception. I then focus on one of the latter set of texts and suggest an approach to understanding Marx that emphasizes his identity as a revolutionary theorist and which, perhaps helps us better understand why he did not give priority to working out a theory of the state in a traditional theoretical manner. At the very least, I hope that this discussion will draw attention to the priority that Marx gave to his revolutionary commitment, a priority that may become neglected when Marxist thought and scholarship is detached from political practice.","PeriodicalId":289058,"journal":{"name":"Class, Race, Corporate Power","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115730063","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}