Political positions are valid only for their conjunctural moment, not forever.

Evidence

Why is it difficult? It has no guarantees. Because identifications change and shift, they can be worked on by political and economic forces outside of us, and they can be articulated in different ways. There is absolutely no political guarantee already inscribed in an identity. There is no reason on God’s earth why the film is good because a black person made it. There is absolutely no guarantee that all the politics will be right because a woman does it. — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 255 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Identity is a positional political choice, not an ascribed primordial given; Contingency of historical conjunctures is a precondition for political possibility; No political outcome is guaranteed by any identity position — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2: Identity…, 255 (+1 more)

Related

• No political outcome is guaranteed by any identity position (similarity 0.89)
• Identity is positional and processual, never reducible to one fixed position (similarity 0.84)
• Identity politics freezes identity in false shapes for political convenience. (similarity 0.80)
• Black political identity is historically constructed and always positional, never essential. (similarity 0.80)
• Identity is a positional political choice, not an ascribed primordial given (similarity 0.80)
• Political positions claim only conjunctural validity, not correctness for all time (similarity 0.79)
• Political movements require moments of popular identification to form. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• No political outcome is guaranteed by any identity position #expands (0.85) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 255
• Contingency of historical conjunctures is a precondition for political possibility #corroborates (0.80)
• Identity is a positional political choice, not an ascribed primordial given #expands (0.75)
• Politics is living with tension rather than postponing criticism #corroborates (0.70)