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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?

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.

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.”

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."