>>412844>Great takes on idpol.No the video is still garbage and pro-idpol
it even uses the phrase
>class reductionismwhich clearly is code for othering Marxists
nobody who uses that phrase should be taken seriously.
We have to re-iterate the identitarian debate tactic of double position switching.
1. position that is the actual position.
2. position that can be defended intellectually
The 1. position of the identitarians is neo-liberal economics with id-pol mongering.
The 2. position of the identitarians is where they give lib-service to class struggle and the problems of capitalism.
When the identitarians get attacked from actual Marxists (which they call class reductionist), they switch to their 2. position, as soon as the wave of criticisms against the identitarian repression and abuses ebbs off, they switch back to their 1. position. They pivot back and forth between soft identitarianism and hard identitarianism. Soft identitarianism can sound quite reasonable (like in this video), but the goal is always hard identitarianism. How many more times do we have to get burned by this trick ?
People have such a eroded political consciousness now that i have to explain such elementary things like forcing people to identify (with) their sexuality or imaginary categories like races or nationalities, already is oppression. That's where it begins. This is how people are denied their humanity, when they become a subset of humanity. Turning this into a political commodity is absolute horror, yes all identity politics no matter how good the intent turns into a commodity eventually, that's what the capitalist society of the spectacle does with politics.
The fight against social discrimination is a fight to make particularities of people not matter, so that nobody can be demoted into a human-subset, where everybody is fully human.
When cows are turned into cattle they get burned with a searing hot branding stamp that creates a wound of burned flesh in the shape of cattle branding, it's very painful and traumatizing for cows. (that's why today cattle farmers use ear-clips). Identity politics has a lot in common with this, except that its causes psychological wounds instead of burned flesh, and people that get victimized by this frequently turn around and inflict identity branding on others in a vicious abuse cycle, where the people that got abused become the new abusers.
If this is all too theoretical, it's quite simple:
Do: politics that revolve around concrete material issues or demands.
Don't: politics that revolve around identities.