It’s the privileges, attitudes and actions of white people which preserve white supremacy as a social structure and economic reality in the United States. It is a remnant of the racialized mode of capitalist production. Created when European settlers colonized this land. https://twitter.com/aishaismad/status/1324416173463736327

The class categories denoted by Marx were based on English and French conflicting groups in the mode of capitalist production. In the US that mode was specifically along socially constructed race categories separating European colonialists and African slaves.

Critical race theory is not antithetical to Marxism. It can be examined in tandem with dialectical materialism. White cishetero patriarchy created multiple identities each with varying relations to the modes of capitalist production.

Much of this could have ended with abolition through reconstruction, but the 1877 compromise, Jim Crow and another century plus of racist legislation ensured Whites would retain a socioeconomically superior status.

Extreme levels of violence were required to maintain these stratifications that continue to this day. They produced intergenerational traumas & biases sewn into the cultural fabric of and remain an indelible stain on the nation present in politics & interpersonal interactions.

As Lauren pointed out. Trans people have their own unique relationship to capitalism, which cannot be separated from white supremacy.

Identity politics is not just a bourgeois liberal indulgence, it's a necessary examination of capital alienation. https://twitter.com/LLW902/status/1324388012411813889?s=20

Marx didn't fail to consider all of this. He left the door open for future development, and the process of dialectic examination should clearly allow and even require understanding race within the capitalist framework and dismiss class-reductionism as counterrevolutionary.

I suggest reading Mao's "On Practice" and "on Contradiction." It helped me conceive of a lens on race dynamics which identifies the contradictions of race within traditional class strata and how the Black American's relationship to capitalism differs from the white american's