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The intersection of "Black and Red" has historically occurred around the common feature of orientation to the working class and related ideas of socialist anti-capitalism. In this paper, I shall argue that the division of the working-class into included and excluded necessitates a new orientation to the excluded. The paper will begin by exploring how the question of the excluded drove a wedge between Bakunin and Marx, before looking at the growth of exclusion today and the types of social movement to which it gives rise. It will attempt to map a 'politics of the excluded' to inform the revitalization of anarchism and autonomous neo-Marxism while deepening the insights of Bakunin's critique of Marx. Bakunin believes that people change their class position by becoming part of the state (excerpt 1) and fears a 'barrack regime' coming from the project of regulated reform. My sense of Bakunin's relevance today is that, in contrast to Marx's theory of included workers as vanguard, he called for an orientation to the excluded or 'rabble', the repressed Other of Marx's category. In contrast to Marx, Bakunin treated the state as itself a kind of class. "Here, then, is society divided into t

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