text: While I admit identity politics is important, I still feel that class politics and economic freedom that it allows gives aggrieved populations more freedom and leverage to pursue equal treatment. Its difficult for the majority of, say, African Americans to be proactive in their demands for equal treatment when their economic situation means they can't take a day off from work to march, or a week off to go to a national rally- let alone the economic ruination that could come from any criminal or civil charges as a result of direct action.