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if postcolonial theories have taught us one thing

[...] If postcolonial theories have taught us one thing, it is to mistrust discourses which exalt ‘origins’ – that is, to reject the idea that it is possible to rediscover a ‘virgin’ postcolonial identity beneath the colonial experience. Nothing of the sort exists, and origins are always hybrid. [.…

—p.237 Left Hemisphere: Mapping Contemporary Theory Conflictual Identities (227) by Gregory Elliott, Razmig Keucheyan
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the exploiter needs the exploited

According to Wright, capitalism feeds off exploitation, which entails maintaining this concept at the heart of the analysis. Exploitation is a social relation distinct from domination, which cannot be subsumed under the latter. [...] ‘non-exploitative’ oppression: it can extend to the physical elim…

—p.220 Class Against Class (206) by Gregory Elliott, Razmig Keucheyan
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contradictory class locations

Wright has proposed an original solution to this problem, in the form of the concept of ‘contradictory class locations’. According to him, the middle classes do not in themselves constitute a class. The individuals who make them up are located in several social classes at once, whose interests are …

—p.219 Class Against Class (206) by Gregory Elliott, Razmig Keucheyan
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what underpins all forms of domination

[...] Yet even when critical thinking does contain a class dimension, it is invariably only one factor among others. Thus it will be said that a form of class domination exists, just as forms of male domination or ethnic-racial domination exist, these different forms of domination being placed on t…

—p.206 Class Against Class (206) by Gregory Elliott, Razmig Keucheyan