Jeremy Stangroom

There's never been any other relevant kind. Any derisive mention of identity politics reveals naïveté (or intentional misdirection).

Or another example: the Iranian revolution. Brilliant example of a political movement that incorporated many diverse elements.

I'd have to think about it, but revolutions are usually driven by a strong "us vs them" sentiment, which would b the purest ID politics, no?

Then you're in trouble because the "Us/Them" dichotomies are destructive of the attempt at building a movement... even if people don't

Of course. So coalitions can be stable when there's an overriding interest unifying them. And the interest itself can become the identity.

As happened to the workers' movements that survived well after workers stopped being proletarians, because they still identified w/unions...