Confronting the “Elite Capture” of Identity Politics in Our Movement Spaces
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Identity Politics - The Limits of a Critical Criticism of Politics
The term identity politics comes from the Combahee River Collective, which was a group of queer black women socialists that met in Boston. They named themselves after a raid done on the Confederacy by Harriet Tubman. And I'm sure if we could get into a time traveling device and go back to the 19th century when Harriet Tubman is fucking up the Confederacy with the help of her comrades, black soldiers, and freeing people from slavery, I'm sure she would be annoyed that the forces of global white supremacy and regime change are claiming what she did 100 and some odd years later.
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