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On 2/7/19 6:13 PM, Andrew Stewart via Marxism wrote:
Asad Haider. Mistaken Identity: Race and Class in the Age of Trump.
Brooklyn, NY Verso, 2018. 144 pp. $17.95 (paper), ISBN
978-1-78663-737-6.
This jackass blocked me on Twitter. I have no idea why.
The review states:
A further, final stage of revision is necessary in order to communicate
the argument to readers who have not experienced the transformation of
consciousness that resulted from Haider’s self-immersion in the problem
of identity politics. At this final stage, which Flower calls
reader-based prose, the writer must articulate the heretofore tacit
semantics that will bring claims and evidence into meaningful
relationship to an uninitiated audience. This requires a restructuring
of the author’s habitual self-representation of the problem to
foreground the work that the argument intends to do in the world instead
of recapitulating the author’s idiosyncratic process of discovery.
Although some moments in Mistaken Identity rise to this level, it is not
a book that consistently achieves the transition to reader-based prose.
True, readers already immersed in the flow of contemporary socialist
discourse may find the text accessible and illuminating. I suspect,
however, that newcomers to that discourse will not. That is why, despite
Haider’s sincere intentions of accessibility, I can recommend this work
for undergraduate pedagogy only in situations where course structure
will bring students to fluency in contemporary socialist discourse. In
the absence of such preparation, his writer-based prose exacerbates the
risk inherent in any complex text: that from it, readers may take
messages contrary to those which the author intended to convey.
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In plain language, this says that Haider is a gas-bag, something I
discovered 10 years ago.
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