I saw my relative liked an anti-crt tweet so I think its time I finally figure out what this is all about. I'd like to think I have a basic understanding of critical theory from reading this and excerpts from Foucault in college, but I genuinely don't get what the difference between critical theory and crt is. Is crt not just applying critical theory to race? Why is it designated differently? Should I just email Chomsky?

Thanks

  • 4zi [he/him, comrade/them]
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    3 years ago

    This a great answer, thanks.

    "It is at its best quite marxist in its analysis ..." are you referring to CRT or Crenshaw's writing?

    I gathered that whatever the chuds were screaming about wasnt actually CRT considering how hard Critical Theory is to grasp (kids are never gonna read or be taught anything remotely along the lines of foucault or marcuse).

    • solaranus
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      1 year ago

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          1 year ago

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        • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          It comes from the Frankfurt School which is draws its roots from Marx, but in a pretty distinctly anti-communist/communist critical way. So CRT is by no means communist, but it approaches race through the same systemic lense Marx used to reveal the contradictions of capitalism.

          That being said, it's not incompatible with communism at all, as it just looks at what exists and what systemic/social foces create those conditions.