Race Productionism: An Attack on Class Productionism

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We keep thinking exclusively, primarily about race and identity, when really we should be thinking about economics and social class. I wouldn't describe the take away of this book as an attack on race productionism in particular. It just isn't true that mass incarceration is is purely a problem of class. If you're looking at what our world is like, how it decides who to make creditor and who to make prey, there just are more things going on than class.

Olúfẹmi Táíwò is a philosopher and an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University. He is the author of Reconsidering Reparations, and his latest book is Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else).

In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Olúfẹmi Táíwò discuss the difference between identifying the wrongs of the past and charting a road for progress, why we shouldn’t shy away from pursuing difficult political goals, and how we can better build movements around shared interests.

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