Thanks. I could have kept writing and writing, but I had to get some work done today, ha! Also, I hit the limit on comment size. I hate to leave it without some kind of call to action, or some kind of way to engage with these identity groups that can build revolutionary potential. I am, however, not an organizer. Likewise, I’m not part of a marginalized group. So I’m not sure if I would have anything new to really add.

I think that there is a danger of dismissing “Identity Politics” as a tool of the ruling class. I think we need to embrace these marginalized groups, as our comrades in the past had done. History shows us these groups have revolutionary potential, that the politics of their identities can form unique socialist perspectives that should be incorporated and not discarded. All things being dialectical means that if there exists bourgeois identity politics, then there naturally exists revolutionary socialist identity politics.

That is precisely what Black Liberation is, what Queer Liberation is, and what Women’s Liberation is. All of them have their revolutionary history, and revolutionary literature.