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| '''Identity politics''' (shortened as '''IdPol''') is politics centered around identity groups, rather than focusing on class struggle. Communists reject [[reactionary]] identity politics due to its focus on individual over collective experience.<ref>{{Citation|author=CPB Executive Committee|year=2020|title=Britain’s road to socialism|title-url=https://yclbritain.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/britains_road_to_socialism.pdf|pdf=https://yclbritain.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/britains_road_to_socialism.pdf|publisher=Manifesto Press Cooperative|isbn=978-1-907464-43-0|page=39|chapter=The labour and progressive movements|quote=Analysis of structural inequality is being replaced by some with reactionary identity politics which emphasise the individual over collective experience.|section=Progressive movements and alliances}}</ref><ref name=":3">{{Citation|author=Various authors|year=2019|title=Identity Politics and the Transgender Trend: Where is LGBT Ideology Taking Us?|chapter=Identity politics or class politics?|page=58|pdf=https://s3-eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/s3.cpgb-ml.org/TransgenderTrend_read.pdf|city=|publisher=|isbn=978-1-913286-00-2|doi=|lg=|mia=|title-url=|chapter-url=|trans-title=|trans-lang=|quote=The need to carry out our work and make the best of whatever resources we have available to us – to do our duty to the working class and to the revolution – takes precedence over all our needs and preferences as individuals. It is a sign of how muddied our waters have become by individualism and the politics of identity that this should even need to be stated.|section=Equal rights and the hierarchy of pain}}</ref> This is based on the idea that the masses must be emancipated before the individual.<ref>{{Citation|author=[[Joseph Stalin]]|year=1906|title=Anarchism Or Socialism?|title-url=https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1906/12/x01.htm|quote=The cornerstone of anarchism is the individual, whose emancipation, according to its tenets, is the principal condition for the emancipation of the masses, the collective body. [...] The cornerstone of Marxism, however, is the masses, whose emancipation, according to its tenets, is the principal condition for the emancipation of the individual. That is to say, according to the tenets of Marxism, the emancipation of the individual is impossible until the masses are emancipated.|mia=https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1906/12/x01.htm}}</ref><ref>{{Citation|author=Various authors|year=2019|title=Identity Politics and the Transgender Trend: Where is LGBT Ideology Taking Us?|chapter=Identity politics: a liberal ideology|page=38-39|pdf=https://s3-eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/s3.cpgb-ml.org/TransgenderTrend_read.pdf|city=|publisher=|isbn=978-1-913286-00-2|doi=|lg=|mia=|title-url=|chapter-url=|trans-title=|trans-lang=|quote=|section=Faking ‘progressive’: the petty-bourgeois mindset}}</ref> | | '''Identity politics''' (shortened as '''IdPol''') is politics centered around identity groups, rather than focusing on class struggle. This is purely concentrated on the [[Base and superstructure|superstructure]], meaning they ignore the origins of the antagonisms between identities, and ignore class struggle as a result. Identity politics has been utilised by liberals, and liberal theories such as [[intersectionality]] were created. |
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| Identity politics is purely concentrated on the [[Base and superstructure|superstructure]], meaning they ignore the origins of the antagonisms between identities, and ignore class struggle as a result. Identity politics has been utilised by liberals, and liberal theories such as [[intersectionality]] were created.
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