Uploaded February 2018 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
Charles Derber says the Left, since the sixties, has abandoned the class politics of bottom up organizing and moved toward identity politics. This has created a tremendous opening for right wing populism with its own perverted appeal to workers while allowing them to exploit their own white nationalist identity politics.
Derber defines what identity politics is and the issues you has with it?
The Democrats, of course, have been top down for decades (and the Clintons really exacerbated this) so part of the challenge is also how to to build a relation between bottom-up movements on the streets with a Democratic Party that is locked into Wall St.
Derber discusses some issues progressives can embrace that will make them stand out from more centrist candidates.
Charles Derber says the Left, since the sixties, has abandoned the class politics of bottom up organizing and moved toward identity politics. This has created a tremendous opening for right wing populism with its own perverted appeal to workers while allowing them to exploit their own white nationalist identity politics.
Derber defines what identity politics is and the issues you has with it?
The Democrats, of course, have been top down for decades (and the Clintons really exacerbated this) so part of the challenge is also how to to build a relation between bottom-up movements on the streets with a Democratic Party that is locked into Wall St.
Derber discusses some issues progressives can embrace that will make them stand out from more centrist candidates.
