Trump’s ascension to the White House, many more are and will be engaging with these and other causes: the recent Women’s March on Washington was the largest demonstration in American history organizations like the ACLU, Planned Parenthood, and the Committee to Protect Journalists have seen unprecedentedly large donations Fight for $15 and Black Lives Matter are preparing to launch their first joint action as part of a “broadening of the coalition” and the membership of the Democratic Socialists of America has tripled since last year. Over the last decade, a collection of social change efforts - including (but not limited to) Black Lives Matter, Occupy Wall Street, the climate movement, third-wave feminism, LGBTQ rights activism, Fight for $15, and the Moral Monday protests - have helped focus much-needed attention on many painful realities about life in the United States today. But it first must get beyond bourgeois dismissals of the Dalit leader’s revolutionary dharma.
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