"'Identity Politics' Is the Ideology"

"For Fraser this tendency became increasingly explicit in the form of corporate feminism, embodied by Clinton, Sheryl Sandberg, and so on. As she put it in a 2015 interview with the New York Times, 'The mainstream feminism of our time has adopted an approach that cannot achieve justice even for women, let alone for anyone else. The trouble is, this feminism is focused on encouraging educated middle-class women to "lean in" and "crack the glass ceiling"—in other words, to climb the corporate ladder. By definition, then, its beneficiaries can only be women of the professional-managerial class.'"

In a 2019 n+1 article, Gabriel Winant discusses the evolution of the term "professional-managerial class."