Identity Politics - Marxism in America

by

        Zeno Potas

      The Leftist majority in the Democrat party has perverted the notion of free speech and poisoned the academic environment in American society today. It has turned the American political system on its head, creating a situation where opposing views are not only unwelcome, they're deemed to be signs of evil intent. It is pitted friend against friend and has caused rifts within families.

This is identity politics.

      The Left still, after the election defeat, believe that they have found it's an answer to destroying their opposition with identity politics. Using Marx's class struggle they have reformulated the ideal into an ethno-radical struggle. In this new version of Socialism, all of western civilization and it's history, is not analyzed through the use of a reason or judged according to standards been developed over centuries, rather it is viewed through the prisms of a race, class, and gender, and the record of modern civilization's oppression of various groups. It is hailed or condemned in accordance with certain political checklists.

      "What these radicals blandly called multiculturalism,” wrote Irving Kristol, “is as much a war against the west as Nazism and Stalinism ever were.” Ensconced in affluent city centers and their cozy suburbs, liberal elites tell themselves that identity politics will carry them to the progressive future of their dreams. We tend to view the stories as examples of the culture war. They were more than that; they are examples of a coastal, metropolitan, highly schooled upper class warring against the traditions and freedoms of a Middle American, ex urban and rural, lower middle and working class with some are no college education. In short examples of the privileged few attempting to impose their will on their elected majority. What is more, the Left rejects the natural rights theory of the American founding which is at at the core of our tradition. Under the guise of multiculturalism, their radical ideas often goes beyond the bounds of political into sheer fantasy.

      In the former USSR, censorship, (safe spaces) rewriting of history(the Founders were white save owners) and eliminating undesirable people (non-Progressives) became part of Soviets' effort to ensure that the correct ideological and political spin was put on their history. Deviation from official propaganda was punished. In our society today the punishment is name-calling ridicule and condemnation from the Democratic party and it's compliant media.

      The problem with identity politics is that it reduces

us. We are no longer human beings with individual hopes and dreams. We are commodities. We are groups to be labeled and courted in pandered two. Were told what it's thought we want to hear and we divide ourselves into pockets of groupthink will. We begin to speak only with others in our group, and we begin to believe that the only valid and true way to think is the way we think. This is identity politics. It is Marxism with another name - in twenty-first century America.