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"America's secularism debates distract from the deeper problem of a flawed political structure causing gridlock. Public failure evokes personal vice, leading to a cultural war between thinly veiled liberal condescension and right-leaning racism, each latching onto rapidly changing controversies, mostly "religious," and failing to address root causes"--

Contemporary Anti-Muslim Politics provides a succinct but potent critique of the foreign policies of Western nations toward majority Muslim nations. For decades, foreign policies that rely on exclusion, ghettoization, and war have triggered conflict escalation with majority Muslim nations and caused an increase in extremist activity.

An attempt to reconcile Marxism & feminism is made by focusing on the strain of argument centering on social identity in Marxist thought. Three works from the Marxist tradition are shown to predate recent arguments in feminist theory. Karl Marx's "Die Judenfrage" ([On the Jewish Question] 1844) examines the nature of liberation offered by a transformation of identity that remains within the larger structure of inequality. Marx's call for a new communist identity to oppose capitalist class-based identities is paired with the feminist call for gynocentric identity. It is argued that Franz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth (1961) parallels radical feminist arguments that self-empowerment for the powerless requires a distancing from an imposed, dominant culture, whether it be colonialist or masculinist. Further parallels with feminist arguments for a separatist response to exploitative relationships are found in Kwame Nkrumah's Neocolonialism: The Last Stage of Imperialism (1965). A feminist reading of Marxism offers a path beyond materialist assumptions & an end to the ghettoization of Marxist scholarship. 21 References. H. von Rautenfeld