Frank Kogan

what about using a different term of classification for
(i) the types of type we are that some have no choice in
(ii) the types of type we are that all have choice in ???

(marx eg specifically distinguished between the working class, which was an analytical category, and the proletariat, which is alert to its situation and engaged in its transformation -- ie a political category) (other marxists have been much less clear about the implications of this distinction)

plainly lots of categories and identities are transient -- but "being poor" may not be one of them, however much you want it to be

the relationship between what's voluntary and what's not is totally part of frank's project, of course: "does the music choose me? how and why?" has animated several if not all of his columns to date

so if there are class types -- economic? racial? -- which can't be changed just by yr own (individual) choice, which can only be changed at "yr" behest by "yr" participation in political activity (which if it succeeds in changing the shape of society may succeed in changing the shape of the meanings of its seemingly fixed classes/categories), hoiw does this factor into yr decisions about which identity-attractions you will pursue, and which shake off?