The mind is separated from the body, especially in Western culture This "mind" is very moral, even politically correct. It is Eloi. Meanwhile the hard toilers can't identity with intellectual leftist, not least because they live hard lives. The body is Morlock -- and so are the manual workers.
Identity politics is also a part of the problem, which prevents us from seeing how society is divided along horizontal lines of hierarchy. Instead we are encouraged to see only vertical lines, and the colours of skin competing against another. So, putatively left wing identity politics merely reinforces the main capitalist sense of reality -- that we are all competing against each other. Moreover we all have weapons in the form of moral censure by means of which we can attempt to "compete"(by stabbing others).
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