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Identity Politics, Criticism, and Self-Criticism

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https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-8663603
Creative Commons 'BY' version 4.0 license
Abstract

If one of French Maoism’s main contributions to the sixties’ cultural turn was a theory of the relative autonomy of ideology, one of US Maoism’s main contributions was identity politics. A product of the application of Mao’s theory of contradiction to US circumstances, identity politics also represented a reinvention of ideology critique by US Third World and Black feminist movements, though in this case directed to practical ends.

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