Confronting the “Elite Capture” of Identity Politics in Our Movement Spaces
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From the podcast website:
"We have to be politically serious about how much agreement and how much alignment we’re going to require in a world of a resurging far-right fascist movement across the globe,” says philosopher and author Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò.
In this episode of “Movement Memos,” Táíwò and host Kelly Hayes discuss the lessons of Táíwò’s book, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else).
Find a complete transcript and listen to the podcast here:
https://truthout.org/audio/confronting-the-elite-capture-of-identity-politics-in-our-movement-spaces/
Dee VanThournout