Something to chew on in light of several OPs recently. Rather long read:

[1StrongBlackMan]

15. Whoa ... Did you read the linked article?!? ...

It's even worse than the cartoon! Walter Benn Michaels is asked whether anti-discrimination (social justice) stuff impedes economic stuff ... he answers no, then uses Stone-wall (and SSM) to, in effect, say it does because the time, resources, and effort spent on SSM could be better spent on opposition to capitalism!

The most vivid image of that is going to be same sex marriage. I mean Stonewall was, what, in 1969? So, it’s almost exactly forty years ago, and the idea that gay rights would include or should include same sex marriage was seen as . . . I don’t know if anyone even had that idea, I mean I’m old enough to have been around then, and I might have missed it, but I don’t know if that was on anyone’s agenda even as a utopian fantasy. Today it’s going to be a reality; it is in five states, on its way to being a reality in six states. That’s not been produced primarily by academics, that’s due to a shift in American society itself. And it is on one hand a completely admirable shift, I don’t think there is any doubt that you have a freer, more just society if you allow same-sex marriage, but on the other hand it is a shift that is in no sense oppositional to capitalism.