How Elites Ate The Social Justice Movement by Fredrik deBoer

An argument that the contemporary social justice movement has been taken over by professional elites who use identity politics as status signaling rather than pursuing material reforms; it traces how universities, nonprofits, and corporate DEI practices have institutionalized performative “wokeness,” sidelining working-class interests and producing moralizing cultural policing instead of solidaristic, class-based politics, and calls for a reorientation toward economic redistribution and broad-based organizing.

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