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"Uncaptured" Identity Politics is No Substitute for a Politics of Class

"Uncaptured" Identity Politics is No Substitute for a Politics of Class

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò’s Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (and Everything Else) argues that we can free identity politics from its “elite capture.” But why not simply pursue a politics of class?

Oriental Jews, or Woke 2.0

Oriental Jews, or Woke 2.0

Contemporary anti-racism is a class project. That’s as true for the right as it is for the left.

Making the Dull Compulsions Sexy Again

Making the Dull Compulsions Sexy Again

<em>The Class Matrix</em> is essential reading. It’s too bad it’s wasted on academics.

Class Politics and Status Politics

Class Politics and Status Politics

An excerpt from a classic text on the rise of Prohibition distinguishing class politics from the symbolic, expressive movements of status politics.

Abundance, Scarcity, and the Race/Class Short-Circuit

Abundance, Scarcity, and the Race/Class Short-Circuit

Just as black struggle is taken to stand in for working-class struggle, so too is the present enemy of black struggle—the police—taken to stand in for the capitalist class.

Applied Roganism

Applied Roganism

Politics for most people is a means to an end. If we fail to highlight solidarity and shared material interests over ideological purity or identity, we will fail to transform the abstract support of disaffected voters into actual engagement.

From Avant-Garde to Sociologized Art, Part Two

From Avant-Garde to Sociologized Art, Part Two

Art’s desire to endlessly demonstrate its compromised place ultimately makes it as monotonous as the commodity culture from which it tries to distinguish itself.