Cultural Studies assimilated Marxism into identity politics, & so undermined the basis of Marxism, which is better described as a *disidentity* politics, not the empirical destruction of identity/ethnicity but a collectivity organized on the basis of an indifference to difference
Agreed. Identity politics presents and legitimizes itself in (an obscene image of) emancipatory terms.
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But Marxism may also have contributed directly to the conditions that give rise to identity politics, for example by delegitimising the institutions that support a common culture / community
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