I am not of that leftist breed that piously proclaims that everything is open to criticism, and then, when asked to produce three major criticisms of Marx, lapses into truculent silence.
[...] 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. [.…
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…
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 …
