"identity politics: I have been exploited and therefore I have a right to exploit her, her, him, and him. That's identity politics. I have ambition and I have a right to fulfill my ambition at her expense, her expense, her expense and her expense, because I have been exploited. And when we finish with Zionism, which indeed we will, then we will also have finished with the most crass form of identity politics, the one which allows those who have suffered - or in this case the descendants of the sufferers to claim the right to exploit, kill and maim without limit"
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Selma James
Selma James (born Selma Deitch; formerly Weinstein; August 15, 1930) is a writer, feminist, and social activist who co-founded the International Wages for Housework Campaign and was a coordinator of the Global Women's Strike. She is Jewish, and the historian and writer C. L. R. James was a long-term partner of hers.
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