I’ll Burn That Bridge When I Get To It (NEW EXPANDED EDITION)

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Heretical Thoughts on Identity Politics, Cancel Culture, and Academic Freedom

NORMAN X. FINKELSTEIN

Norman Finkelstein's hilarious send-up of wokeness

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610 pages
Paperback ISBN 9781682196403
E-book ISBN 9781682196427

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The Obama cult is rooted in and the fully ripened fruit of identity politics. How, then, should its legacy be reckoned? Identity politics has distracted from and, when need be, outright sabotaged a class-based movement that promised profound social change. It counsels Black people not to trust whites, as their racism is so entrenched and so omnipresent as to poison their every thought and action. It conveys to poor whites that they, no less than the white billionaire class, are beneficiaries of racism, so that it would be foolhardy of them to ally with Black people. It fractures, splinters, fragments a natural and necessary alliance of the have-nots by splicing and dicing them into, literally, an infinitude of subgroups, each of which insists on parity representation in any coalition, creating a cacophony of demands and preempting any possibility of that broad unity and solidarity which, alone, can defeat the organized, ramified power of wealth.

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Photo © Maryam T Ordoubadi Norman G. Finkelstein received his doctorate from the Department of Politics at Princeton University. For many years he taught political theory and the Israel-Palestine conflict. He is the author of a number of books, among them Gaza: An Inquest Into Its Martyrdom; Method and Madness: The Hidden Story of Israel's Assaults on Gaza; Knowing Too Much: Why the American Jewish Romance with Israel is Coming to an End; What Gandhi Says: About Nonviolence, Resistance and Courage; “This Time We Went Too Far”: Truth and Consequences of the Gaza Invasion; Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History; and The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering.

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