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celebratedrecluse wrote

in general, this is a problem for subaltern, not just workers. in uplifting a subaltern identity, which has been predefined in conversation with power, the predefinitions are themselves reified.

Leaving behind identity altogether, however, tends to be more successful in destabilizing an intersectional hierarchy. While valorizing the subaltern in the language of power reinforces the fundamental dynamics of power itself, attacking the concept of identity itself leaves power without a familiar landscape to dominate. Instead, the conversation of social contestation is more malleable. Other dynamics and positionalities can emerge, which are made impossible by the current dominant culture and its internal contradictions.

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