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Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else) by Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò

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Breht O'Shea

Communism, Politics, Liberalism, Society & Culture, Philosophy, News, History, Leftwing, Socialism, Marxism

4.83.4K Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò joins Breht to discuss his book "Elite Capture". Together, they discuss what elite capture is, how the language of social justice has been co-opted by liberal elites, the difference between deference politics and constructive politics, and much more!

Find the book here: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1867-elite-capture

Outro music: Organizing Steadily (ft. Amihan and RAHSELLA) by Power Struggle


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0:00.0

Hello everybody and welcome back to RevLeft Radio.

0:09.0

On today's episode I have Philosophy Professor Olufendi Taiwo on to talk about his book,

0:15.4

his new book, Elite Capture, how the powerful took over identity politics and everything

0:21.3

else.

0:22.3

This is a really timely and important text.

0:24.8

I know we've talked about a lot in the show, Liberal Ideology, Co-Option of Revolutionary

0:30.0

Energy into the maintenance of the status quo and this text is really a breakdown of that

0:34.7

process and how it happens.

0:37.0

We were kind of time restricted.

0:38.2

I had to go get my kids from school.

0:39.8

He's very busy doing interviews and other things as well.

0:44.0

So this interview was a little less than an hour which is a little shorter than we usually

0:48.0

do.

0:49.0

But as I said, you can go check out the book.

0:51.2

It's definitely worth diving deeper into this argument and our good friends over at Millennials

0:55.6

are killing capitalism.

0:57.3

Also did a wonderful interview with Professor Taiwo that I encourage all my listeners to

1:01.4

go check out if you haven't already.

1:03.8

Especially if you listen to this episode and want a little more, definitely go check

1:07.0

out their interview with him.

1:09.6

So yeah, without further ado, here is my discussion with Professor Olufendi Taiwo and his

1:16.0

book Elite Capture.

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