Identity politics is itself a category of politics invented by reactionaries to insult their opponents. Somehow, it is identity politics for women to fight for equality, but not identity politics for people to fight wars in the name of their nation.
There are also vulgar Marxists who also buy into the notion that some fights are wrong to fight, because “no war but the class war” or “muh materialism” or whatever excuse they want to come up with.
Rest assured, these men (and they are typically men) are fools who are living the “basic biology when advanced biology walks in” meme when it comes to Marxism. Would we call it “class reductionism when dialectics walks in”? I don’t know.
What it all boils down to, is that for some people, most contradictions of human society (gendered contradictions, racial contradictions, etc) do not exist or are invalid. These get labeled as identity politics.
We on the other hand should not shy away from these contradictions and details. We should not dismiss emergent phenomena (secondary contradictions) because we have become hyperfocused in the underlying physical mechanisms (the primary contradiction of capitalism). And we most certainly should always maintain solidarity with the opprossed masses of the world.
Identity politics is itself a category of politics invented by reactionaries to insult their opponents. Somehow, it is identity politics for women to fight for equality, but not identity politics for people to fight wars in the name of their nation.
There are also vulgar Marxists who also buy into the notion that some fights are wrong to fight, because “no war but the class war” or “muh materialism” or whatever excuse they want to come up with.
Rest assured, these men (and they are typically men) are fools who are living the “basic biology when advanced biology walks in” meme when it comes to Marxism. Would we call it “class reductionism when dialectics walks in”? I don’t know.
What it all boils down to, is that for some people, most contradictions of human society (gendered contradictions, racial contradictions, etc) do not exist or are invalid. These get labeled as identity politics.
We on the other hand should not shy away from these contradictions and details. We should not dismiss emergent phenomena (secondary contradictions) because we have become hyperfocused in the underlying physical mechanisms (the primary contradiction of capitalism). And we most certainly should always maintain solidarity with the opprossed masses of the world.