Why is class not an identity?

Why is class not an identity?

It is an identity.

Because you will be sent to gulag if you don't work!

You don't identify as proletariat or bourgeoisie, your class is determined by your relationship to production.

Because class is your relation to the productive process. It's your relation to material forces.

Selling your labor in return for a wage isn't an identity. It's an action you perform to gather to yourself the means of survival.

Because your personal feelings don't factor at all into it. Class is a material and social relation.

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Class is about dress, the atmosphere that the character exudes, the facial expression, how a person expresses themself, the chosen expression of wit, how a person carries themself, honour, dignity.
Even the poorest beggar can exude all the elements of class. Sometimes we see rich people and we feel they lack something, it's like they're just like any plain jane or joe but just a bit more cash. There's nothing special about them.
That's because they lack class. Class is something that you can spot right away, it's like an air they carry around with them, it's a sort of cloistered, quiet pride that they need not announce, but it can be seen and felt, a quiet air of pride and dignity.

Not that kind of class, you silly billy.

Your ironic shitposting is still shitposting.

Read my thesis, again.
The textile industry is an industry!
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Even if it was an identity, the goal of socialism is to abolish classes.

Are NEETs a class? What about retired folks? Serious question, since neither are forced to sell their labor to survive, at least in most of the developed world.

The state will just whither and thither away I swear to GOD man : DDD bud we godda ged dos fuggin borgissi with le vanguard laws that don't reify social-economic paddernsxdddd

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It is an identity.

It is just that in capitalism, today in the West, it is the only politically important identity.

The problem with what we call "identity politics" is that it assumes a political significance to other forms of identity.

Same goes for sex though. Inb4 tumblr trespasser goes apeshit.

identity = feefees

class = objectively determined through observation

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Indeed, and yet no one is born with gender, wearing dress, hat, and sock! We merely are.

We're all born naked and the rest is drag, as they say.

Because your class describes your relation to the means of production. That is the theory. Reality isn't as cut and dry though and people do identify with their class, making their class a part of their identity.

Wew.

I hope that you're not also saying observation isn't the objective itself, to know the world through more precisely thorough mechanical numbers, as it were. But such is ultimately futile, as calculated determination cannot save you in the face of mortality.

that is some sick OC.

There is a difference between a material relationship to the means of production and cosplay. Only pomos can't tell the difference.

Yes, transslaves like me need representation on this board.