Future Hindsight | Critical Race Theory: Mari Matsuda

This week, we're joined by Mari Matsuda, a lawyer, activist, law professor, and founding practitioner of Critical Race Theory. We discuss the various ways inequality threatens our freedom, the dangers of harmful speech, and the way racism is systemic in our institutions.

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This was certainly worth a listen to — I did not personally agree with ALL of it, but Professor Matsuda’s insight is to be regarded with respect.

As a Marxist Leninist, I do find CRT to be lacking in the department of addressing of wholesale structural inequities, and all too focused on the super structure of race thereof in. Professor Matsuda even goes so far to encourage incorporation of CRT into the neoliberal-corporate apparatus which facilitates imperialism and oppression in the global south and imposes austerity within 1st world countries. This is not to say that racism was not a prime factor relative to the bourgeois monopolizing the modes and means of production — however to Professor Matsuda (who I presume is petty-bourgeois) interprets such as the sole factor, which we as orthodox Marxists reject.

Case in point: a Caucasian person working two to three jobs in dilapidated, de-industrialized, Middle America in 2021 materialistically has far less in common with a Caucasian nuclear family living in Middle America in 1951 (affixed to one income) and instead materialistically has far more in common with BIPOC folk who were locked out of Middle America in 1951. However because Caucasians in Middle America are ignorant of dialectical materialism (due to anti-communist propaganda) they believe that have more in common with the 1951 Caucasian family due to the cultural reinforcement of systematic racism — and less in common with lower income BIPOCs today and BIPOCs from yesteryear. However it does not help when BIPOCs who have been integrated to advance within the neoliberal capitalist apparatus (like Professor Matsuda) speak of these systems of oppression when materialistically SHE has more in common with white families from the 1950s, than she does with lower income white families today.

There needs to be a balance between dialectical materialism and critical race theory and at this time the balance is off.

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This professor assumes disparity = discrimination. Did she back it up? No