Class consciousness is a self-destroying strategic artifice, not an inalienable identity.

Evidence

For class-consciousness does not engage the ground level of consciousness—consciousness in general. “Class” is not, after all, an inalienable description of a human reality. Class-consciousness on the descriptive level is itself a strategic and artificial rallying awareness which, on the transformative level, seeks to destroy the mechanics which come to construct the outlines of the very class of which a collective consciousness has been situationally developed. — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader, 1763

Categorization

• QUESTION: Whether collective strategic identity can be sustained falls on whether other groups can be situational-rallying the way class is here argued to be.
• XREF: connects to: Class consciousness functions as an artificial rallying device rather than a natural given.; Strategic essentialism collapses when applied to consciousness-in-general rather than class. — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader: Selected Works of…, 1763; Collective strategic consciousness is necessarily self-alienating. — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader: Selected Works of…, 1764 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Strategic essentialism collapses when applied to consciousness-in-general rather than class. #complicates (0.85) — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader, 1763
• Collective strategic consciousness is necessarily self-alienating. #corroborates (0.75) — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader, 1764