Abstract
Following the debate between Marxists and the Critical Race Theorists (CRT) over the analytical utility of the concept of White supremacy in the contemporary discourse on racism, this paper offers an additional Marxist response to Sean Walton’s article to complement the existing Marxist thoughts on the debate. This paper further deepens the discussion on racialization as the general descriptor of racism in western societies, by introducing the class context in which racialisation has sustained and maintained racism in the contemporary era. Racialization is defined in this paper as an ideological process that involves racialising benefits, privileges, and opportunities to one group [possibly an ethnic group] over other groups by the capitalist ruling class and the state, and legitimising it by using policies, media, laws, regulations, and institutional practices as a means of entrenching division and disunity in the society and preserving their system of control under capitalism. Following this definition, it is argued that racism is being reproduced through the process of racialization in the contemporary western society. In the overall discussion on racialisation and White supremacy, the ideology of racism was espoused, and the future of racism as articulated in Critical Race theory and Black radicalism is reviewed.
Highlights
Following the debate between Marxists and the Critical Race Theorists (CRT) over the analytical utility of the concept of White supremacy in the contemporary discourse on racism, this paper offers an additional Marxist response to Sean Walton’s article to complement the existing Marxist thoughts on the debate
This paper has offered a response to Sean Walton’s suggestion that Marxism should not dismiss the CRT concept of White Supremacy
The paper has outlined why Marxists reject the notion of White Supremacy, using racism as an ideology to expand on the Marxist conception of racialization
Summary
The articulations of the concepts of White Supremacy and racialization have generated a wide array of commentaries, critiques and debates between Critical Race Theorists (CRTs) and Marxists about the analytical utility of both frameworks in explaining and understanding racism in contemporary western society. The third point is the inability to critically scrutinize the claims of Black radicalism and expose how the theoretical blind alley around the framework is inhibiting and constituting an impediment to future discussion on the anti-racism movement or the eradication of all vestiges of racism in western society This lacuna is what I seek to articulate briefly in my response to Sean Walton below. My reply is not intended to challenge Cole’s work but to expand it This response critiques the CRT concept of White Supremacy and deepens the Marxist analysis and understanding of racism in contemporary western society.
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