Now for the meat and potatoes.
CRT originates from socialist/marxist thinkers as expounded on by one of the founding fathers of CRT, Richard Delgado:
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Liberal McCarthyism and the Origins of Critical Race Theory ~ Richard Delgado
I will focus particularly on a little-known purge of radical Marxist and socialist professors, most of them young, talented, and white, that began around 1969 or 1970 and continued for a decade afterward, in which the above mentioned figures and others of their elite class played parts.
I posit that this wave of what I call liberal McCarthyism occurred because America's guardians foresaw the arrival of growing numbers of black and Latino applicants knocking at the doors of America's leading colleges and universities. This early generation of undergraduates of color, who would have entered the nation's newly desegregated grade schools beginning in the mid and late 1950s, their ranks now swollen by affirmative action, seemed poised to become the nation's first large generation of black and brown schoolteachers, social workers, mayors, college professors, lawyers, executives, and doctors.
Establishment figures were not at all eager for these future leaders to learn social analysis from far-left professors of law, history, criminology, and political science. 26 Having just lived through the turbulent sixties, these visionary figures preferred the new cohort of minorities moderate, responsible, and above all, not angry. Accordingly, the establishment removed the white radical professors in a series of tenure denials that spread across the country during this period. I describe a number of these removals. Culling from newspaper reports, personal interviews, and archival material, I show how two prominent law professors, a professor of history, and one of criminology were forced out of their jobs at elite universities.
In Part III, I connect four of the most prominent removals with the rise of critical legal studies and critical race theory. 28 Specifically, I show how these leftists used their periods of unemployment (in one case) or underemployment (in three others) to nurture radicalism in the hinterlands in ways that contributed to the rise of these two schools of radical thought.
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A "theory of surplus education"-a correlate of Marx's famous proposition - holds that if you teach a worker enough mathematics to use a machine or operate a cash register, he will use that knowledge to figure out that you are raking off a great deal of profit and ask for a raise.
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The common refrain I read when people throw the Marxist accusation at CRT proponents, is CRT focuses on race, and Marx focuses on class. However, it does not take a rocket scientist, or a sociologist to see how "whiteness" is being used as the Bourgeois, and POC being the Proletariat.
The other is difference that's often discussed is the call for revolution which CRT does not expictedly advocate for, or so these folks say.
For a bit of context:
In the final paragraph of the The Communist Manifesto, the authors call for a "forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions".
It's hard to argue against the fact most CRT proponents advance the idea that all of America, and western civilization, namely capitalistic nations, is infected with "whiteness" and "white supremacy" or the neo-bourgeois that exploits POC, or the neo-Proletariat.
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The first section of the Manifesto, "Bourgeois and Proletarians", elucidates the materialist conception of history, that "the history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles". Societies have always taken the form of an oppressed majority exploited under the yoke of an oppressive minority. In capitalism, the industrial working class, or proletariat, engage in class struggle against the owners of the means of production, the bourgeoisie. As before, this struggle will end in a revolution that restructures society, or the "common ruin of the contending classes". The bourgeoisie, through the "constant revolutionising of production [and] uninterrupted disturbance of all social conditions" have emerged as the supreme class in society, displacing all the old powers of feudalism. The bourgeoisie constantly exploits the proletariat for its labour power, creating profit for themselves and accumulating capital. However, in doing so the bourgeoisie serves as "its own grave-diggers"; the proletariat inevitably will become conscious of their own potential and rise to power through revolution, overthrowing the bourgeoisie.
But what's a Proletarian revolution?
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A proletarian revolution is a social revolution in which the working class attempts to overthrow the bourgeoisie. Proletarian revolutions are generally advocated by socialists, communists and most anarchists.
You can find many similarities and in some cases out right replication on how Marx describes the bourgeoisie and proletariat when you read or listen to CRT proponents discussing whiteness/white supremacy and POC's.
More to come...