i agree that the neo-liberal appropriation of identity politics for it's own purposes of socially engineering a more racially diverse elite is not a revolutionary politics, but i also have little opposition to it, and while i will sign off on any petitions arguing that it is ultimately a distraction for the left, i wonder if it isn't better to stand back and let it happen.

i understand that a component of the neo-liberal appropriation of identity politics is the expectation that minorities within the elite will act with influence in the communities they "represent" for the ultimate benefit of the elite, which is sort of feudal in character; i wonder if expanding access to the elite might rather aid in building the kind of cross-community solidarity that the working class, itself, needs to develop to better organize. what i'm saying is that there might be greater revolutionary potential in organizing in the future if we allow for this neo-liberal identity project to work itself out. after all, they've been using identity politics to rip us apart for ages, and it's actually kind of worked pretty well; having them undo their own control system, which has harmed us so greatly, may have beneficial outcomes, in the end.

or, maybe i'm being naive - maybe we're just being set up for the next round of divide and conquer.

so, i'm waiting this out, is what i'm doing, and i'm hoping it works itself out into something more revolutionary.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/23/opinion/bernie-sanders-protesters-democrats.html