The fundamental rottenness of " identity politics " was clear to me decades ago

The fundamental rottenness of " identity politics " was clear to this old socialist decades ago . I was pleased in recent years to see my gut feelings validated on the World Socialist Web Site. More than 100 years ago Marxist inspired socialists were in the vanguard of the movement calling for PROGRESSIVE new attitudes toward women as women, toward racial equality, enlightenment on homosexuality, attacking Dark Age remnants of anti-Semitism. But all these various forms of oppression were put in context of the CLASS STRUGGLE. What " identity politics " succeeded in doing was corrupting these suddenly popular causes into a vehicle for petty bourgeois social climbing. The whole purpose of corrupted " identity politics " was to smother growing CLASS consciousness. Oddly enough ," identity politics " attacked everything progressive about Western Civilization . Poor old wicked Columbus ! All this is as obvious as 2+2 = 4 . But ask Winston Smith of " 1984 " fame if this truth cannot become controversial or just cancelled. When will the ruling class ideologists run out of assigned IDENTITIES for you to hug ? ben franklin [pre death] • 4 days ago If you've seen the movie Solo: A Star Wars Story, you know they are already inventing the robot identity for coming AI Anthony Allen • 4 days ago Identity-politics "academics" are free to yell at clouds to their heart's content but institutions of higher learning that enable this gibberish by hosting professorships & publishing such psycho-babble will learn that ignoring or denying objective reality, as revealed by Enlightenment methods such as scientific inquiry, carry severe & very real consequences that are impossible to ignore & which play into the hands of the capitalist system that profits mightily from such disorientation of the populace. Ed Bergonzi • 4 days ago This article is very interesting and timely. But these notions aren't exclusive to sex and gender studies curricula. A particular feminist bias that has filtered into biology in recent decades is the mistaken notion that all human embryos are by default female. Maleness is perceived as a secondary characteristic, even though it is pre-programmed by the Y chromosome carried in some of the sperm cells of males. In birds, it is the opposite, in which the female determines the sex of the individual. In actuality, the sex characteristics of a genetically determined male or female are identical up to the seventh gestational week, so its sex is indeterminate from the standpoint of its anatomy.