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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?
Ben Burgis Jun 11, 2025
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.
Aurora Borealis Aug 5, 2020
Race and Class

Race and Class

Only when we see the working-class as a class-for-itself may we say anything concrete about its supposed “racism.”
Harry Chang Sep 10, 2018
Dialectics of Racial Categories

Dialectics of Racial Categories

The concept of race is often thought to be logically prior to that of racial distinction. It is necessary here to "straighten the dialectics out."
Harry Chang Jun 4, 2018

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