What question did this study set out to answer?

To investigate the transition from class struggles to identity-based conflicts in post-socialist contexts.

July 31, 1995

From Redistribution to Recognition? Dilemmas of Justice in a 'Post-Socialist' Age

Puntos clave

To investigate the transition from class struggles to identity-based conflicts in post-socialist contexts.
Analyzed political discourse surrounding recognition of diverse group identities.
Examined case studies of political movements related to nationality, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality.
Identified a significant increase in recognition-based claims over class-based struggles.
Demonstrated how identity groups now drive political conflicts in post-socialist societies.

Resumen

The ‘struggle for recognition’ is fast becoming the paradigmatic form of political conflict in the late twentieth century. Demands for ‘recognition of difference’ fuel struggles of groups mobilized under the banners of nationality, ethnicity, ‘race’, gender, and sexuality. In these ‘post-socialist’ conflicts, group identity supplants class interest as . . .

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