Radical movements get assimilated to bourgeois culture via nationalism, essentialism, and fragmentation

Evidence

Black, or feminist, or Third-Worldistis the danger of embourgeoisement. And the triple signs under which radical movements of this kind are at length assimilated into the main currents of bourgeois culture itself are rhc signs, these days, ofThird-Worldist nationalism, essentialism, and the currently fashionable theories of the fragmentation and/or death of the Subject: the politics of discrete exclusivities and localisms on the one hand, or, on the otheras some of the poststructuralisms would have itthe very end of the social, the impossibility of stable subject positions, hence the death of politics as such. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 265

Categorization

• XREF: This directly engages the reader’s core research question on strategic essentialism and Spivak’s coining. Ahmad frames essentialism and Third-Worldist nationalism as signs of bourgeois assimilation, precisely the materialist critique the reader seeks. — connects to: Postcolonial national bourgeoisies consolidated while nationalism evaporated or caused havoc — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures, 150; Radical theory shifted from socialist revolution to Third-Worldist nationalism as national bourgeoisies consolidated — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures, 272; Black radicalism is transcending nationalism and class struggle for its own authority (+9 more)
• ADDENDUM: The ‘embourgeoisement’ framing of radical identity movements could pair with the class/status-signaling analysis in the dress-panics article.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures, 265

Broader Connections

• Radical theory shifted from socialist revolution to Third-Worldist nationalism as national bourgeoisies consolidated #exemplifies (0.85) — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 272
• Diaspora nationalism can reinforce exclusive and essentialist communal ideologies #exemplifies (0.85) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3010
• Capitalism’s global unification paradoxically generated nationalism as fragmentation #expands (0.85)
• An anti-establishment artistic movement can be absorbed into authoritarian nationalism #exemplifies (0.82) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1986
• Ethnic nationalism within the party defeated Americanizing Marxism #exemplifies (0.82)
• Black radicalism is transcending nationalism and class struggle for its own authority #qualifies (0.80)
• Idealizing a past by stripping its material basis persists as cultural nationalism #exemplifies (0.80) — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 472
• Marxism’s dismissal of culture left it unequipped for nationalism #complicates (0.75)
• Dismissing culture as class consciousness left Marxism unequipped for political forces #complicates (0.75) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 363