Thanks for the link.

I'm not sure I'm ready to go so far as to say that ID is always bad, but I think it's limits are apparent, and that it can often lead to abuse of the individual. Social groups are often constructed around shared experience, but outwardly defined by physical characteristics or other ones that don't necessarily map. Therefore you can just as easily have 'members' of the group speaking from hearsay. I just have a difficult time granting legitimacy for anything but knowledge and personal experience, and I think ID is a very blunt tool for legitimacy. At its worse, it might be considered stereotyping with good intentions. Verifying legitimacy beyond ID might be more difficult, but groups held to narrower definitions might be less able to do harm around the edges.

In any case, I believe identitarian politics are only useful so far as analyzing and disarming the conflicts and oppressions that are the side-effects of capitalism. All of these conflicts come back to false consciousness instigated by class conflict.

I might disagree with you, not in substance, but where the root lies; I'm not sure... I see Capitalism as an expression of humans in a specific set of circumstances. I think it (and the caste system that comes with it), can (and will be) be dispelled, but I don't see Capitalism so much as the offender, as our nature is. I see Capitalism as a set of tools that were adaptive to a certain time, but I feel that time is passing. To me, more important than killing Capitalism, is what we will replace it with.