4. Only Revolutionary Class Struggle can Dismantle Racial Capitalism. (CRT Part 2)

Crawdads and Taters: Red State Rebels

In this second part of a two-part series on Critical Race Theory, Crawdads & Taters review the way CRT, like many once-radical US social movements, has been largely captured by neoliberalism and its funding institutions, stripping it of its original class politics and its revolutionary potential for broad-based political transformation. We also review popular anti-racist literature like Ibram X. Kendi's "How to be an Anti-Racist" and imagine what Critical Race Theory might have looked like today had it maintained a solid anti-capitalist analysis over the last several decades. Finally, we offer up the work of a few key movement leaders, as a way to uplift today's revolutionary voices in the anti-capitalist, anti-racist and abolitionist left.

Related links:

Marxism Is Way Better Than Critical Race Theory with Vivek Chibber

Critical Race Theory: An Introduction by Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic

Fred Hampton Speaks

Fred Hampton on Revolution and Racism

Blackshirts and Reds by Michael Parenti

William I. Robinson, "The Global Police State"

Angela Davis: ‘We knew the role of the police was to protect white supremacy’

Episode 41: Racism and Capitalism in Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor's Race For Profit

Ibram Kendi on the critical race theory culture war.

Trump Says Go Back, We Say Fight Back by Robin DG Kelley

Martin Luther King - The Three Evils of Society

Ruth Wilson Gilmore - famous abolitionist

Keeanga Yamahtta Taylor - journalist, professor, author

Marc Lamont Hill - journalist, professor, activist, abolitionist

Robin DG Kelley - professor, author, activist

Derecka Purnell - legal scholar, activist, abolitionist

Nick Estes - professor, revolutionary Lakota leader

Cedric Robinson - activist, author of Black Marxism

Assata Shakur - revolutionary, BPP member

WEB DuBois - sociologist, scholar