No, I need sanity. But it sits next to everything else though.

Need to self reflect and listen more.

I am pretty liable to pop off about the scourge of capitalism to just about anyone who will listen. I have other facets of my personality but it is definitely a common one that anyone who meets me will probably find out about within 15 minutes.

Since it would be pointless to pretend otherwise, my primary identity is my job, since that’s what I spend most of my time conscious doing

In which case my political identity is a compartmentalized and buried thing that I keep alive thru scholarship and keeping up with world events

I’m in survival mode, so self-actualization on my own terms is currently not on the table, end of the day I’m a worker

Are categories such as “man”, “truck driver”, or “Harry potter fan” apolitical?

Also, I don’t know. I feel like I barely exist

I don’t wear hammer and sickles but I can’t shut up about the kind Vladimir Illych

My primary identity is temporarily embarrassed millionaire

First and foremost I identify as a special agent of the FBI

Im a puppy woof woof

What the fuck even is an identity

It intertwines with a lot of my sense of self, but idk there’s a lot to me that has very little to do with my politics. I don’t think people see me for my politics first, because most of the people I’m around irl are liberal/conservative and they’d probably avoid me if they thought I was really a communist.

No I am primarily a fun…ctional alcoholic

My primary identity is petit bourgeois failson, only a select few know I’m secretly plotting to [redacted]

I’m primarily a naturalist. Professionally, in my hobbies, and socially most people just know me as a plant guy and hiker. But I’m an eco-Marxist and nature is pure dialectics for me, so that’s where I’m most radical. There’s no talking about plants without talking about politics.

I feel like if your politics are the primary part of your identity you might be putting the cart before the horse a little. The way someone views the world and the actions they take as a result are clearly a very important part of their person, but IMO those things should exist on top of a more innate self that isn’t determined by macro-scale social phenomena. Not having any other foundation except your political identity might be a problem when the left fails again and again, due to factors outside any individual within the left’s control. It also might hinder your ability to organize effectively because doing nothing besides party work probably will cause you to slowly lose your mind.

I do see a problem where, given the state of the world, for tons of people there is no horse to put before the cart anyway, and their political worldview might be the only thing that gives their life meaning.

my primary identity is “being a creative scrimblo”

“being a communist scrimblo” is just an emergent quality resulting from having the ability to remember things