Difference between revisions of "Inclusion culture"

Patterns of elitism and exclusion are so deeply entrenched in contemporary culture that they are reproduced even at the grassroots level. The lower-level elites that emerge within social action groups or progressive political parties tend to accumulate power and influence, thereby marginalizing less involved members, who suffer a type of exclusion similar to that found elsewhere in society. Since these lower-level elites emerge by committing the most time and energy to the group, it usually seems inappropriate to criticise them. Thus the issue of grassroots exclusion is never raised, and consciousness of this internal problem never arises in the one place in society that one might hope to find it. To overcome the universal reproduction of exclusion it would be necessary to develop a new sort of political activism based on an explicitly culture of inclusion.