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A new leftist narrative is required

In discussion with Nancy Fraser on identity politics, social justice and an emergent anti-Trump coalition.

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Anti-Trump protest in Chicago, January 2017. Rick Majewski/Press Association. All rights reserved.Houssam Hamade (HH): Ms. Fraser, where did the left go wrong? Did we focus too much on the politics of personal emancipation and too little on social justice at large, “too much pink, too little red”, as parts of the leftist German party “Die Linke” put it?*

Nancy Fraser (NF): Yes and no. The problem isn’t the struggle for feminism, LGBTQ-rights and against racism, but the separation of this struggle from the struggle for social justice.

HH: A separated struggle which you refer to as “progressive neoliberalism”…