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by bopbeepboop 1934 days ago
“Antiracism” is another name for “critical race theory” which inherits from the general Marxist body of philosophy, of which “critical blah theory” tends to be a common name. Like “people’s republic” — it’s a fashion thing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-Marxism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_race_theory

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But what is Marxist about its philosophy? What particular beliefs make it Marxist?
In sociology and political philosophy, "Critical Theory" means the Western-Marxist philosophy of the Frankfurt School, developed in Germany in the 1930s and drawing on the ideas of Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud. Though a "critical theory" or a "critical social theory" may have similar elements of thought, capitalizing Critical Theory as if it were a proper noun stresses the intellectual lineage specific to the Frankfurt School.