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What is ‘intersectionality?’
Although originally pitched against inequality, intersectionality theory eventually lays the groundwork for 'diversity' to become the watchword of corporate ethics, not a way of uniting oppressed identities against capitalism explains the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY

AN EARLIER Q&A on identity politics argued that there’s a sense in which all politics are to do with identity.

We all have multiple “identities,” some of them in tension. Some — our sex, ethnicity, family background — we’re born with. Others — job, hobbies, parenthood, age — we acquire in life.

Many of us suffer disability of some sort. For each of us, such identities interact to create a whole which is richer and more complex than each of its component parts. No one of them totally defines an individual.

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