It’s been about 9 years since the Western left took its idpol turn

Define your terms.

• What happened 9 years ago?
• What exactly is “idpol”?
• What exactly is the “Western left”?

If I had to guess, I’d say that you watched a few YouTube videos selected for you by the YouTube algorithm, and then assumed everyone else in the Lemmyverse is in the exact same headspace as you.

My Marxist-Leninist conceptualization of what “Western left” and “idpol” mean might be very different from yours.

• Western Marxism: How it was Born, How it Died, How it can be Reborn
• Imperialist Propaganda and the Ideology of the Western Left Intelligentsia: From Anticommunism and Identity Politics to Democratic Illusions and Fascism
• https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Western_Marxism
• https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Left-wing_anticommunism
• https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Identity_politics
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combahee_River_Collective

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Previously: https://lemmy.ml/post/15667745/11073512