This last line sort of surprises me; granted you say "extreme political importance," but it seems to me that most leftists who complain about identity politics simply feel it is secondary. Of course, the question is what does secondary entail.
>From my experience, radicals who harp on the new class are anarchists (e.g.
Z's Michael Albert and his obsession with "coordinators") Their point is
that should a revolution occur, this new class will axiomatically try to
usurp power from the "true" working class. To hedge against this, they
argue, a revolutionary movement should be made as democratic as possible.
Taking a page from Carrol's playbook, I'd say, should a revolutionary movement with some clout come into existence, at that time we can see what form it takes and what happens and take it from there. If it's too vanguardish, I'm sure I'd be rounded up with the rest of the protesting anarchists. These are some pretty big what-ifs, however.
Peter