How Elites Ate the Social Justice Movement
Celebrities, including Natalie Merchant, Cher, and Mark Ruffalo, rally in opposition to Donald Trump on the eve of his inauguration. (Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images)
Progressives can still succeed if they call out nonsense, focus on class, and start to talk like human beings again, argues Freddie deBoer in an excerpt from his new book.
As well as being a brilliant essayist, Freddie deBoer is a Marxist and a left-wing organizer. He is, in other words, a proper lefty—someone who understands progressivism from the inside.
That familiarity is exactly what makes Freddie—whose name perhaps you’ll remember from his appearance on Honestly—one of the most incisive critics of the contemporary l…
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