i don't really feel CRT runs counter to marxist ideology at all. critical race theory is basically an acknowledgement of systemic racism that is prevalent in the US, seeming to only have mutated rather than dissolved in the last 70.

crt has basis in fact, in the material conditions of people being oppressed, and therefore i don't really feel it's idealist. there are concrete, substantial, and documented statistics that show that people of color are treated on a different basis than white people in the US.

Look around the global south and try to find communists who take the Frankfurt School folks seriously. You won’t. They’re only taken seriously in the west, because their theories clashed with the ideological foundations of the USSR and the PRC, and were less antagonistic to those of the capitalist West.

perhaps they're taken more seriously here because we stripped africans of their culture and heritage in such a vast number, and CRT here is seen as a response to an extremely flawed, but evolving society, built on the backs of black people, slowly pulling itself away from years of racial oppression.

the two theories are not in opposition to each other. both are based in fact. workers of the world are being oppressed, as are people of color.