Dal rifiuto dell’universalità hegelomarxista alla frantumazione postmoderna delle identità: spu-tando troppo su Hegel si finisce prima o poi per sputare anche su Diotima

Differentialist feminism has recently expressed concerns about the "gender fluid theory" and the claims of the "LGBT avant-gardes", who even contest the use of the word "woman" in the name of a non-binary conception of gender relations. According to Cavarero, these movements strengthen patri-archy and erase the history of feminism, reducing women to "containers" in the procreation industry and undermining two centuries of struggles. The thesis exposed in the essay is that we are here in the presence of a sort of "nemesis of postmodernism", which - part of the neoliberal counter-revolution - has systematically deconstructed historical emancipatory identities and alliances, privileging individu-alism and difference. This procedure also influenced feminism, which moved from the request for equality to that of valorising sexual difference. As Domenico Losurdo noted, there is an objective con-tradiction between equality and difference in every emancipationist movement. The claim for égalité transforms at a certain point, in the context of every radicalization dynamic, into a proud claim for identity differences, thus risking naturalizing them and hardening the boundaries between groups. This discourse, although it has its own logic that must be recognized, if taken to the extreme can compro-mise the idea of universal equality and the construction of an inclusive democracy. Exasperated nomi-nalism is in fact the epistemological counterpart of the political inability to build a unitary project of emancipation. A dialectical understanding of political-social dynamics, however, helps to hold togeth-er the recognition of differentialist claims and the search for common ground of universal political ac-tion.