Identity politics posits that oppression stems from identity, and that the latter cannot be chosen but is rather an inborn quality. Yet they also claim identity is a social construct. What is expressed by that quality is therefore identity itself. This expressed quality cannot be attacked; conversely, the persons themselves can be attacked, but only if the identity is not. For the sake of simplicity, we will use “identity” in the singular form. How ableism is avoided is thus semantics elevated to an art. Similar to how the religious wittily avoid sinning through careful exegesis of the Bible.

For example, instead of using the usual slur against those affected by ableism, one can attack the person by merely changing the words, just as I once heard that “Donald Trump is mentally deficient.” Or the smart-ass can say that a person’s intelligence is “delayed.” This logic of identity politics brings everyone who subscribes to this struggle to a cul-de-sac. The human being as such and persons themselves no longer matter; only their identity matters. Therefore, since oppression (or fascism) is defined as attacking a person’s inborn quality, this means everything else is a fair target.

Unfortunately, with this kind of logic, it’s acceptable to make fun of red-haired men and even to verbally abuse them à la South Park. In the case of the adult cartoon, even abusing kids is considered fine as long as people who are “red-haired” are not systematically oppressed (a silly example, I know).

A reactionary leftist can abuse a gay man as long as the man’s “gayness” is not attacked. The white man now becomes the ultimate target. Let’s say this particular man is poor; that doesn’t matter to these reactionaries. Nobody “identifies” as poor, and poverty is not an identity. Accordingly, calling a gay white man “white trash” is considered perfectly fine. Idpol is presently “in and of itself.” It must go beyond this and become in and for itself.

The idpol logic grants identities themselves the status of the oppressed, while the human being as such is reduced to nothing. The common man, the average person, aka most people, is reduced to nothing! What identity politics first set its sights on, fighting actual oppression, is now becoming a war on anything other than that. Oppression becomes the universal, the great equalizer, instead of the universal human being who must never be subjected to oppression. A human identity that would be fully universal is precluded and made impossible in this inverted world of “identities as oppression.” Many of them will claim that identity is a “social construct.” It’s not. It cannot be. What we see here is oppression as identity, oppression as appearance, rather than as a relation, a relation between human beings.

In the imperial core, the centralization of capital against the super-exploited periphery created a sort of inverse worldview. In spite of this, it daily re-creates the conditions that will permit the universal human being to come into existence. As long as capital is centralized in this core, what is behind the veil of illusion is the actual class struggle, but super-exploitation did not create the conditions proper for a “pure” class antagonism to emerge. Hence identity politics in the manner of Fukuyama’s end of history. But the ground, the soil in which we fight the class struggle in the imperial core, is the soil that can permit only the result of a pure class antagonism: that is, communism in the flesh, fully born. The inverted side of “actual oppression” is appearance. Therefore, to tame capital here is to destroy capital in the name of the universal human being. The ground is being tilled for the final struggle, the fight for full human emancipation. Yet capital is centrally planted in the core but not centrally planned. The incoming explosion, the break with continuity, the revolution that will emerge in the struggle of capital against the periphery, is the universal human being; it cannot be otherwise.

We have to liberate ourselves by any means necessary. Comrades, in the name of the entire human race, we must be fanatics! In the West, to liberate ourselves from the shackles of capitalism, we must kill the capitalists!