Marx and Engels, in very first paragraph of the Manifesto of the Communist Party, note that
"The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.
Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf, guild-master and journeyman, in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one another, carried on an uninterrupted, now hidden, now open fight, a fight that each time ended, either in a revolutionary reconstitution of society at large, or in the common ruin of the contending classes." (p. 9)
The modernist dichotomy sees the world either extremely good or extremely evil－in Marx's term, people are either oppressor or oppressed. Somehow, the world we live in is far more complicated than the absolute black and white can cover. The fluid identity, the in-between, the hybrid phenomenon, and all the chaos actually constitute our living world that we are not able to "reason" in a modernist logic. Yet, the desire to reason in a modernist logic－the will to a simplistic dichotomy－still dominates our thinking even now.
So, who am I?
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