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"Class Struggle and Identity Politics explores the historical, cultural, political and economic developments since the postwar era, providing the reader with everything they wanted to know but were afraid to ask about the campus wars"--

"With essays by today's leading leftist social critics, Identity Trumps Socialism presents a rigorous and persuasive primer on the problems generated by postmodern and neoliberal challenges to the legacy of emancipatory universality. In addition to the ways in which capitalism has used racialized and gendered forms of oppression to divide the working class, today's activism must also understand how neoliberal capitalism uses identity politics to undermine socialism. Identity Trumps Socialism advances an emancipatory left universality that addresses the limits of diversity and makes the case for the centrality of class in the struggle against global capitalist hegemony"--

"With essays by today's leading leftist social critics, Identity Trumps Socialism presents a rigorous and persuasive primer on the problems generated by postmodern and neoliberal challenges to the legacy of emancipatory universality. In addition to the ways in which capitalism has used racialized and gendered forms of oppression to divide the working class, today's activism must also understand how neoliberal capitalism uses identity politics to undermine socialism. Identity Trumps Socialism advances an emancipatory left universality that addresses the limits of diversity and makes the case for the centrality of class in the struggle against global capitalist hegemony"--

Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Figures -- Introduction -- 1 Democratic Brocialism -- 2 Identity Politics Is Class Politics -- 3 Progressive Neoliberalism -- 4 Post-politics -- 5 Outline of the Book -- Chapter 1 What Does the Professional-Managerial Class Want? -- 1 From the New Deal to the New Democrats -- 2 A Stratum without an Ideology -- 3 The Fall of the Liberal Class and the Rise of the Far Right -- 4 Left Populism as Compromise Formation -- 5 The Wages of Wokeness -- Chapter 2 Bernie Beats Trump, Clinton and Obama Beat Bernie -- 1 Millennials Feel the Bern -- 2 Whose Revolution? Whose Party? -- 3 Malarkey -- Chapter 3 Elective Affinities -- 1 Your Candidate Here -- 2 I'm Bernie Sanders and I Approve This Message -- 3 The Difference That Universalism Makes -- Chapter 4 Less than Bernie -- 1 I Know There Is No Democracy, but I Choose to Ignore -- 2 I Can't Breathe -- 3 Sectarians, Splitters and Fellow Travelers -- 4 When I Hear the Word Culture, I Reach for the Political Economy -- 5 Role Model Ideology -- Conclusion -- 1 The Bipartisan Endgame -- 2 Meanwhile, Back in Wokeville -- 3 Political Revolution Inside -- Bibliography -- Index.

Cultural production as we know it has been undergoing significant restructuring. In an effort to compensate for the global decline in economic growth, governments and corporations have begun to seriously consider the creative fields as markets that can be stimulated through venture capital and regional development initiatives. Along with the neoliberalization of cultural institutions, a conservative agenda that is buttressed by a war economy confronts critics and activists with the repressive forms of state censorship and police control.From art collectives to the US-led war on terror, from cultural contestation to neoliberal governmentality and from alter-global anti-capitalism to the creative industries, this collection of essays examines the issues and politics that have marked cultural production in the first decade of the twenty-first century. In the context of a proliferation of socially engaged art practices and the interventions of autonomous art collectives, Culture and Contestation in the New Century presents the viewpoints of leading international artists and intellectuals working in the fields of critical and cultural theory. After the impasse of a postmodern post-politics 'beyond left and right', what are the possibilities for a radical politicization of cultural discourse? How has oppositionality shifted away from identity and difference, as well as social constructionism, to consider the universal determinations of contemporary neoliberal capitalism? These essays present a number of untimely reflections on the conditions of contemporary cultural practice, subjectivity and political dissidence, making new connections between cultural production, politics, economics and social theory. Simply stated, the book provides an account of the current interface between art and politics

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This 2014 interview with veteran engaged artist Krzysztof Wodiczko addresses work that was made in dialogue with homeless people in Montreal. Drawing on previous experience, Wodiczko emphasizes in the process of collaboration the needs of individual participants and their own performance skills in the presentation of self within conditions of marginality and adversity. The subversive humour of Charlie Chaplin and Bertolt Brecht are identified as key components of Wodiczko's approach to realism.

What is the role of revolutionary art in times of distress? Zapantera Negra is the result of an encounter between Emory Douglas and autonomous Indigenous and Zapatista communities. It unites the bold aesthetics, revolutionary dreams, and dignified declarations of two leading movements that redefine emancipatory politics in the twentieth and twenty-first century.

Marxism and Urban Culture takes a broad view of Marx's legacy and-largely in the spirit of Marxist urban geographers Henri Lefebvre and David Harvey-applies that legacy to cultural practices and products from across the globe. Cities explored include Bologna, Buenos Aires, Guatemala City, Liverpool, London, Los Angeles, Madrid, Mahalla al-Kubra, Mexico City, Montreal, Osaka, Strasbourg, and Vienna.