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The Lacanian Left, Self-Help, and the Family feat. Richard Seymour
Emancipations Podcast
The Politics of Meritocracy
The ideology of meritocracy is actually has been a very successful deterrent to class consciousness, says Richard Vedder. But it can also create a crisis of expectations, he adds. In the United Kingdom in 2017 many working-class voters turned out to vote for a radical left Labour Party because they weren't getting their due and that Labour was speaking to them. It's not straightforward but I think it's meritocracy can have very complicated balances," said Vedder.
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