A powerful indictment of the ways elites have co-opted radical critiques of racial capitalism to serve their own ends.
A powerful indictment of the ways elites have co-opted radical critiques of racial capitalism to serve their own ends.
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ΓΊfΓ©mi TΓ‘ΓwΓ² is a thinker on fire. He not only calls out empire for shrouding its bloodied hands in the cloth of magical thinking but calls on all of us to do the same. Elite capture, after all, is about turning oppression and its cure into a (neo)liberal commodity exchange where identities become capitalism's latest currency rather than the grounds for revolutionary transformation. The lesson is clear: only when we think for ourselves and act with each other, together in deep, dynamic, and difficult solidarity, can we begin to remake the world."
-Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination
"Among the churn of books on 'wokeness' and 'political correctness, ' philosopher OlΓΊfαΊΉΜmi O. TΓ‘ΓwΓ²'s Elite Capture clearly stands out. With calm, clarity, erudition, and authority, TΓ‘ΓwΓ² walks the reader through the morass, deftly explicating the distinction between substantive and worthy critique and weaponized backlash. Understanding the culture wars is essential to US politics right now, and no one has done it better than TΓ‘ΓwΓ² in this book." -Jason Stanley, author of How Fascism Works
"With global breath, clarity and precision, OlΓΊfαΊΉΜmi O. TΓ‘ΓwΓ² dissects the causes and consequences of elite capture and charts an alternative constructive politics for our time. The result is an erudite yet accessible book that draws widely on the rich traditions of black and anticolonial political thought." -Adom Getachew, author of Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination
OlΓΊfαΊΉΜmi O. TΓ‘ΓwΓ² is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University. He is also the author of Reconsidering Reparations.
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