Marc James Léger is a Marxist cultural theorist living in Montreal. He is the author of Bernie Bros Gone Woke: Class, Identity, Neoliberalism (2022), as well as Too Black to Fail: The Obama Portraits and the Politics of Post-Representation (2022), and editor of Identity Trumps Socialism: The Class and Identity Debate after Neoliberalism (Routledge, 2023).

Introduction: The Identity of Politics

Part I: Contemporary Variants of Identity Politics

1. Identity Politics
2. Radical Democracy
3. Populism
4. Privilege Theory and Critical Race Theory
5. Intersectionality and Decoloniality

Part II: Diversity Across the Political Spectrum

1. Conservatism and Fascism
2. Liberalism and Neoliberalism
3. Postmodernism
4. Anarchism
5. Social Democracy and Democratic Socialism
6. Socialism and Communism

Part III: Three Caveats Against the Notion of a Postmodern Left

1. The Problem of Anti-Universalism
2. The Difference Between Socialist Politics and Identity Politics
3. Cynicism and Eclectic Materialism
Class, Class, Class

Conclusion: Theses on Class Struggle and Identity Politics