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
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Liberal identity politics is not politics at all, since it negates the political as such by re-construing political positions in ethnic terms, subsuming 'ought' under 'is'. Proletarian dis-identity politics seeks the dissolution of the classifactory apparatus itself.
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Identities adopt the role of the revolutionary subject. But this is very anti-Marx, who in his saw the revolutionary potential of the proletariat specifically in their lack of identity and particularity, in contrast to all prior revolutionaries.
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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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