The progressive petty bourgeoisie pursue a policy which for some years has been called the cumbersome title of “identity politics”.

What is meant by this is a policy that is based on the first person plural.

"We first ..." becomes the starting point for all political action.

The roots in petty-bourgeois thinking are already evident here. The world is explained by using one's own navel as a yardstick. The bourgeois-liberal as well as the socialist politics agreed at least on the point that they pursue goals that point far beyond the tip of their own nose. Some want freedom, and sometimes equality, and others want equality and sometimes freedom by all means. The politics of the petty bourgeois, on the other hand, is primarily aimed at his own life. He wants to be freed from contradictions and equality for his own kind. The petty bourgeois turns his little self into an absolute value.