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Instead of identities, one could shift the focus on desires. But the same dynamic of discarding someone wholesale because of certain desires and how they manifest or not as projects or goals would ensue. Is there a difference between calling someone a leftist or shunning someone for expressing that they wish to seize the means of production, organize democracy in the workplace, organize towards revolution or insurrection, and establish a dictatorship of the proletariat? Most people aren't that formulaic in their desires. But if they were, I don't think it's excessive to discard them as a leftist.