Left-wing identity labels push abandoned working-class whites into the far right

Evidence

Moreover, when entire categories of people are reduced to their race and gender, and labeled “privileged,” there is little room to confront the myriad ways that working-class white men and women are abused under our predatory capitalist order, with left-wing movements losing many opportunities for alliances that would make us stronger and more powerful. All of this is highly unstrategic, because whichever groups and individuals we kick to the curb, the Mirror World is there, waiting to catch them, praise their courage, and offer a sympathetic ear. — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 413

Categorization

• XREF: Directly extends the core Mirror World thesis — connects to earlier chapters on diagonalism and metabolizing abandoned constituencies. — connects to: Far-right nostalgia expresses class bewilderment at losing the world — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 303