Essentialist identity politics can be a necessary defense where no alternative exists.

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• Identity politics freezes identity in false shapes for political convenience. (similarity 0.90)
• Identity is a positional political choice, not an ascribed primordial given (similarity 0.84)
• Ideologues claiming the key to reality must adapt to every new event (similarity 0.84)
• The concept of ideology was born torn between historical relativism and universal truth. (similarity 0.83)
• Ideology can be reconceived as a terrain of struggle, drawing on Gramsci and Laclau. (similarity 0.82)
• Hegemony must be won before power is seized, not merely imposed by force after (similarity 0.82)
• Nietzsche reduced all ideology to a power struggle between illusions (similarity 0.82)
• Social stability must never come at the cost of necessary change or social justice (similarity 0.82)
• Ideological change happens through class struggle, not through ideas alone (similarity 0.81)
• Hegemony’s thesis absorbs opposition rather than being transcended by it (similarity 0.81)
• A party’s birth depends on exceptional individuals before necessity hardens. (similarity 0.81)
• Hall’s core method was anti-essentialist critique of fixed identities (similarity 0.81)
• Dependent elites believed they had to westernize or perish. (similarity 0.81)
• Elite police rule requires admitting neutral masses to bolster itself (similarity 0.81)
• An ultimate power to decide generates its own norms and cannot be trusted (similarity 0.80)