This paper aims to present critiques of particular identities from various perspectives. In the first part, it explores the distinction between general and particular identities, using Brian Barry's theory to highlight the challenges associated with forming policies based on particular identities from an egalitarian-liberal perspective. Furthermore, the paper addresses the critique by Mark Lilla, who contextualizes identity-based politics within the backdrop of the past eighty years of American political history and attempts to demystify the role of Donald Trump in that context. The second part of the critique comes from a Marxist-socialist perspective by Ellen Meiksins Wood, who recognizes and applauds the achievements made through what she calls the new pluralism but also points out its shortcomings due to a failure to recognize the distinction between capitalist exploitation and other forms of oppression. This paper also to analyzes Critical Race Theory through the works of recognized authors such as Kimberlé Crenshaw and Richard Delgado, contextualizing it within contemporary American society. In the beginning, the paper explains the title to precisely define terms and reinterpret them as needed. Liberalism and socialism, according to the author, share key aspects of their doctrines but differ in some crucial points that will be explored later through analysis. Both approaches stem from Enlightenment thinking and stand in opposition to the old world composed of clergy, aristocracy, and peasantry. The central point of discussion, however, revolves around the conflict between general and particular identities. The paper discusses the Black identity in the context of the United States and the identity of Black women. Politics based on particular identities, as presented through Critical Race Theory, are often perceived as an extension of the struggle for expanding civil rights. While positive changes have been achieved, there are fundamental issues in the theoretical foundations of politics based on a particular identity. The author discusses right-wing objections but emphasizes that the dominant group (white heterosexual males) plays a crucial role in maintaining the subordinate positions of minority groups. Through this analysis, it is concluded that neither the left-wing liberalism nor socialism deem politics based on particular identities entirely desirable, yet they acknowledge that it has its positive aspects.