If the rich vote in favour of lower taxes that is a vote based on material considerations I guess but I feel something is wrong if that is positively contrasted with the 'mere identity politics' of those demanding less job discrimination & more accountability for police killings
Also: is the demand for equal rights , for equal access to vote and influence democracy not really 'material'? Esp if you wish to use your democratic right to demand the reallocation of resources, say, to those unjustly denied or provided with unequal access to those resources?
I think it would be odd to tell Martin Luther King Jr that his focus on voting and march in Selma was mere identity politics (tho that was sort of the claim of his segregationist critics)
Further also: it can't really be sensible that whatever the wealthy do to keep their wealth is a better kind of politics because it is *always* in their material interests to stay wealthy

Definitionally, the interest of the wealthy to stay wealthy is material

So what?
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