Marxism and Intersectionality

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Marxism and Intersectionality provides important and timely insights into the relationship between race, gender, sexuality, colonialism, and capitalism.
What does the development of a truly robust contemporary theory of domination require? Ashley J. Bohrer argues that it is only by considering all of the dimensions of race, gender, sexuality, and class within the structures of capitalism and imperialism that we can understand power relations as we find them nowadays. Bohrer explains how many of the purported incompatibilities between Marxism and intersectionality arise more from miscommunication rather than a fundamental conceptual antagonism. As the first monograph entirely devoted to this issue, »Marxism and Intersectionality« serves as a tool to activists and academics working against multiple systems of domination, exploitation, and oppression.

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Ashley J. Bohrer

Themen in »Marxism and Intersectionality«

Intersectionality Intersectionality Marxism Marxism Feminist Theory Feminist Theory Critical Race Theory Critical Race Theory Anti-Capitalism Anti-Capitalism Politics Politics Social Inequality Social Inequality Gender

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Besprochen in:https://marxandphilosophy.org.uk, 22.04.2021, Jean-Pierre Reed Besprochen in:https://www.lacittafutura.it, 09.07.2021, Stefano PaternaScience & Society, 4 (2022), Hester Eisensteinhttps://diefreiheitsliebe.de, 14.12.2022
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»Ein ambitioniertes Werk und eine sehr empfehlenswerteLektüre.«
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»Die Beiträge von Bohrer [bieten] den Ausgangspunkt für eine produktive Debatte: Ernst in der Sache, solidarisch im Umgang.«
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»Ashley Bohrers »Marxism and Intersectionality« is indispensable reading for socialists trying to understand how class, race and gender mesh.«
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»Ashley J. Bohrer presents a compelling and forceful case for thinking about Marxism and intersectionality as distinct traditions that can nonetheless work in concert with one another.«
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»Ashley J. Bohrer zeigt eindrucksvoll, wie solidarische Kritik gerade nicht zur immer weiteren Spaltung der Linken, sondern im Gegenteil zu besserem gegenseitigen Verständnis und Koalitionen im Kampf gegen Dominanzverhältnisse führen kann.«
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»Ashley Bohrers »Marxism and Intersectionality« is indispensable reading for socialists trying to understand how class, race and gender mesh.«
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»The contributions of Bohrer [offer] the starting point for productive debate: serious about the matter, solidary in dealing with it.«
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»Ashley Bohrer's bold, brave project reminds us that imagining a just humane world requires both intersectionality and Marxism, yet these two intellectual traditions have too rarely been put into dialogue. Bohrer gives careful attention to foundational texts in both traditions, and then reads the traditions side-by-side, yielding a reinvigorated conception of solidarity rooted not in an imagined (and fictive) sameness but in difference and coalition. Bohrer also reminds us of the importance of thinking about difference and structure simultaneously, offering scholars and practitioners practical tools for dismantling forms of capitalist domination. This is a necessary and crucial intellectual and political intervention that will change the terms of Left conversation.«
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»In a world of multiple and in some cases worsening oppressions, the challenge of understanding–and strategizing how best to overcome–social domination and social injustice has become more acute than ever. Ashley Bohrer's striking intervention in current debates, informed not merely by an impressive familiarity with multiple literatures but her deep engagement with activist communities, makes a boldly contrarian case for the reconciliation of Marxism and intersectionality theory. Whatever side you are on in this debate, this is a book very much worth reading.«  
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 »In this highly readable book, Ashley Bohrer brings two critical formations that have often – despite their obvious and historic overlaps – been opposed to one another. Arguing that Marxism and intersectionality must be thought together, Bohrer's book carefully demonstrates that any plan aimed at real and holistic social transformation must hold both traditions in critical awareness.«  
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»This book offers an indispensable reframing of the political impasse between Marxist and intersectionality traditions. Through meticulous and incredibly lucid readings of an expansive range of Marxist and intersectionality theory, Bohrer reveals the deep imbrication of these traditions that both respects the integrity of each and highlights their important historical and theoretical convergence. Putting to rest caricatures of ›identity politics‹ and reductionist views of power, she demonstrates how thoroughly race, gender, and sexuality permeate capitalist exploitation and oppression. Marxism and Intersectionality offers one of the most thorough interrogations and defenses of Marxist and intersectionality traditions, anticipating and responding to a wide range of counterarguments. It is essential reading for anyone engaged in coalitional anti-capitalist politics in the 21st century.«  
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