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Like the Diana story, Meghan’s fight with the Royals will ensure nothing really changes

Cook, Jonathan
http://www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2021-03-09/like-the-diana-story-meghan-markles-fight-with-the-royals-will-ensure-nothing-really-changes/

Date Written:  09/03/2021
Year Published:  2021  
Resource Type:  Article

Oprah Winfrey's interview with Meghan and Harry is a perfect case study of how an important political debate about the corrupting role of the monarchy on British life gets shunted aside yet again, not just by the endless Royal soap opera but by supposedly progressive identity politics.

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What the Oprah interview does - is designed to do - is derail the intersection of class and race in politically damaging ways.

A meaningful democratic struggle prioritises class unity as the battering ram against establishment power that long ago learnt to protect itself by dividing us through our competing identities. Class struggle does not ignore race; it embraces it and all other socially constructed identities used by power to rationalise oppression. Class subsumes them into a collective struggle strengthened by numbers.

Struggle based on identity, by contrast, is inherently divisive and politically enervating.

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Meghan's fight for the first mixed-race British prince is no more politically progressive than the celebration by the media two years ago of the news that for the first time women were in charge of the military-industrial complex – the one that rains down death and destruction on "Third World" men, women and children.
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