Here I\u2019d like to draw on Oliver Marchart, who has worked on this issue and shown that there is an identitarian perspective on this concept, i.e. solidarity amongst a political subject who sees him\/herself so: proletariat, migrant\u2026and that there is another solidarity which he describes as \u201cself-alienation\u201d, and here the self-understanding is that of betraying one\u2019s own identity or class. I think that this form of solidarity is particularly interesting. The power of this concept of solidarity resides in how it cuts through a rigid understanding of belonging to one single group. That\u2019s what interests me.<\/p>\n
Politics without solidarity is inconceivable and indeed such a politics holds no interest for me, because, in the first place, I\u2019ve got no idea which identity I\u2019d adopt and commit myself to, and secondly I don\u2019t want to limit myself to any one group of people who are the same as me. Because I really wish that I don\u2019t have to stand up against anti-Semitism on my own, but also because I don\u2019t want to live in a racist world, one where people are discriminated on the basis of skin colour, language or ethnicity, even when I myself am not directly affected. That\u2019s why the only conceivable politics for me is one based on solidarity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"