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Moralizing Doesn't Help

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2005

Linda Gordon
Affiliation:
New York University

Abstract

Verity Burgmann's condemnation of identity politics is unhelpful, because it is moralistic and ahistorical. Its assumptions take us back to a time before the civil rights, New Left, women's, and gay movements reinvented the Left so as to articulate their aspirations and grievances.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© 2005 The International Labor and Working-Class History Society

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