Identity politics freezes identity in false shapes for political convenience.
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- Essentialist identity politics can be a necessary defense where no alternative exists. (similarity 0.90)
- Identity is a positional political choice, not an ascribed primordial given (similarity 0.84)
- Cultural influence detached from popular masses lacks real political weight (similarity 0.82)
- The concept of ideology was born torn between historical relativism and universal truth. (similarity 0.81)
- Racism and hostility intensify rather than erase traditional identifications. (similarity 0.81)
- Identity is a political claim to belonging, not a fixed trait (similarity 0.81)
- The master-producer relation is the hidden foundation of all political forms (similarity 0.81)
- Democracy can function on recognition by only a minority (similarity 0.81)
- Race never functioned as a unifying force in American national identity as religion did (similarity 0.80)
- War-of-position politics is the only available political game for the marginalized (similarity 0.80)
- No political outcome is guaranteed by any identity position (similarity 0.80)
- Political passion arises from economic life yet transcends self-interested profit calculation. (similarity 0.80)
- The New Left expanded rather than collapsed the definition of culture and politics (similarity 0.80)
- Ideologues claiming the key to reality must adapt to every new event (similarity 0.80)
- Identity politics presumes identity guarantees politics when it is actually forged through struggle (similarity 0.80)