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The right is changing its line on "woke capitalism"

The right is changing its line on "woke capitalism"

A new article making the rounds on the right echoes a growing sentiment: the problem isn't woke capitalism, it's woke anti-capitalism.

Jun 03, 2021
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Over the past few years, something called “woke capitalism” has become a staple of right-wing rhetoric. If you ask some Republicans about this, they will tell you that a large and growing faction of the right have become skeptical about capitalism1, and that they think it is related to some nebulous cultural problem of “wokeness”.

But as I’ve written abou…

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