The Role of Identity Politics in the Left

Alex Castellanos: Class collective must surely have its own theoretical waypoints that has sort of inspired it and guided in developing its own unique approach to some of these issues. Can you talk a little bit about whether or how this question comes up for your own organization, your publication, class collective?Castellanos: No movement can really be radical unless it constrains power, right? That's the nature of radicalism. So identity politics, who does it constrain, right? Corporations, NGOs, academia, they've locked up the discourse and adopted it really zealously.