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Elites have captured identity politics
The Gray Area with Sean Illing
Is It a Materialist Victory?
Capitalism is the ideological residue of many political victories that've been won over the past few centuries. In what i see in largely symbolic iterations of progressive politics, there's still a tendency to harness legitimate grievances in ways that won't do anything to address the material root of those grievances. I think it' just false, in an ordinary way, to chock up the development between the end of the second world war and now to just rhetoric or just symbolism.
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