Elite Capture - How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (and Everything Else) - Olufemi Taiwo
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A powerful indictment of the ways elites have co-opted radical critiques of racial capitalism to serve their own ends
“Identity politics” is everywhere, polarizing discourse from the campaign trail to the classroom. But the “identity politics” so compulsively referenced bears little resemblance to the concept as first introduced by the radical Black feminist Combahee River Collective. While the Collective articulated a political viewpoint grounded in their own position as Black lesbians with the explicit aim of building solidarity across lines of difference, “identity politics” is now frequently weaponized as a means of closing ranks around ever-narrower conceptions of group interests.
But the trouble, Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò deftly argues, is not with “identity politics” itself. Through a substantive engagement with the global Black radical tradition, Táíwò identifies the process by which a radical concept can be stripped of its political substance and become the victim of elite capture—deployed by political, social, and economic elites in the service of their own interests.
Táíwò’s crucial intervention both elucidates this complex process and helps us move beyond a binary of “class” vs. “race.” By rejecting elitist identity politics in favor of a constructive politics of radical solidarity, he advances the possibility of organizing across our differences in the urgent struggle for a better world.
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This post has 10 comments with rating of 5/5
October 25th, 2022
Way to miss the point. It should be “How identity politics is stupid, divisive, and pointless”.
October 26th, 2022
Identity politics is used heavily by everyone rich, from Disney to Donald Trump, because it gets them support and, ultimately, money. It’s poorly written, but Nancy Leong’s “Identity Capitalists” has many useful examples of its use and benefits on college campuses, in department stores, and on television programming from queer eye to fox news. Identity politics is so prominent in the us because it’s a lucrative business, primarily for cis-straight-pale people, regardless of political affiliation or personal beliefs.
October 26th, 2022
“… cis-straight-pale people…”?! Aka normal white folks methinks? The defense rests, ya hona’
October 26th, 2022
Yes, “normal” (i.e. ingroup) people benefit from idpol, and so they make use of it whenever and wherever possible.
October 26th, 2022
Saying “normal” is the perfect example of identify politics being used in an elitist way.
October 29th, 2022
This book is great - the Combahee River Collective have bequeathed us some very valuable political ideas that have been co-opted by the elites. The ideas are solid but anything can be misused - it’s up to us to learn how and change things. Recommended book
October 30th, 2022
trump won
May 20th, 2023
Hello could you seed please since it isn’t downloading for me
January 31st, 2025
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April 15th, 2025
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