Hello and welcome to a world to win a podcast from Trippie magazine. I'm Grace Blakely

bringing you your weekly dose of socialist news theory and action from around the world.

This week I talked to Olyphemy Taiwo about his two new books, reconsidering reparations

and elite capture, how the powerful took over identity politics and everything else.

We discuss what identity politics actually means, why it's so often contrasted to class politics,

and what socialists need to do to create inclusive sustainable movements for political change.

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intro and outro music. And now here is Olyphemy Taiwo on his new book Elite Capture.

Hello, Femi and welcome to this episode of a world to win. How are you today?

I'm great. Thanks for having me. So today we're going to be chatting about two of your books,

Elite Capture and reconsidering reparations. The first book Elite Capture, you talk about this

idea of identity politics, which is kind of a calmness, casual term for people who kind of support

it and vociferously don't. How do you define the term and how does your definition differ from

the one that we might used to be hearing about in the media? So I largely follow at least my

interpretation of the Kombi River collective who coined and popularized the term identity politics.

To me, it's just a political perspective that is self-consciously tied to one's social identity.

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