Left-Wing and Rifght-Wing Identity Politics

Left-Wing and Right-Wing Identity Politics: A Comparison of the Post-structuralist Turn in Left-Wing Extremism with the Ethnopluralism and Nominalism of the New Right Hendrik Hansen 1. Introduction In February 2019, the film Black Panther was awarded three Oscars in Los Angeles. Some reviewers embraced it for its anti-racist message against the resurgence of racism under U.S. president Donald Trump.1 It tells the story of a black hero who tries to steer the development of an ethnically pure, isolationist hereditary monarchy in Africa. The imaginary state of Wakanda, which presents itself to the rest of the world as a third-world * Originally published as “Linke und rechte Identitätspolitik: Ein Vergleich der poststrukturalistischen Wende im Linksextremismus mit dem Ethnopluralismus und Nominalismus der Neuen Rechten,” in Jahrbuch für Extremismus- und Terrorismusforschung 2019/20 (II), ed. Hendrik Hansen and Armin Pfahl-Traughber (Brühl: Hochschule des Bundes für öffentliche Verwaltung, 2021), pp. 242–89, https://www.hsbund.de/SharedDocs/Downloads/2_Zentralbereich/20_Referat_W/Publikationen/20_Schriften_Extremismus_Terrorismusforschung/band_16.pdf. Translated by Xuxu Song and Jonas Weaver. 1. Cf., e.g., Reggie Ugwu, “Did You Watch ‘Black Panther’? Let’s Talk Spoilers,” New York Times, February 18, 2018, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/18/movies/blackpanther-spoilers.html. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license. For a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. English translation © 2023 Telos-Paul Piccone Institute. Telos 204 (Fall 2023): 11–50 • doi:10.3817/0923204011 ISSN 0090-6514 (print) 1940-459X (online) www.telospress.com 11