What Is Elite Capture and What Does It Mean?

Elite capture is just what happens over time when the most advantaged people in a group get control of stuff and maybe more importantly processes that should be for the whole group. The political direction of the movement or an organization is also something that can be subject to elite capture so the example I've been giving these days is one that echoes the criticism of LGBTQ organizing. For a while there the movement got overly focused on marriage equality to the exclusion of other things that were also of interest to queer folks, he says.