I guess I should go on to describe how that relates to critical theory. So base theory went on to further argue that because physical goods can "exert their will" like steam equipment willed that someone is poor (bad logic), that this effect not only exists (it doesn't), but is so encompassing and potent that the presence of capital is responsible for the nature of humanity (or at least all the bad parts of it selectively). Therefore to improve humanity you must get rid of all capital.
Later as the Frankfurt school took the mantel of communism this was adjusted to "narratives" taking on that role instead of capital. This is critical theory. It says that to improve humanity you just need to make it believe the correct narratives even if they aren't true at all (add post modernism to believe that truth doesn't exist anyway). Or to put it differently, everything that is bad in humanity is a result of a narrative, and thus has to be pruned, even if it is based in reality, just as capital was responsible for anything negative about humanity. What is dis-considered is that the flaws of humanity can have multiple sources and that such dogmatic assumptions about the origins of all human flaws is going to lead to stupidity.
Critical race theory is an attempt to explain race theory via critical theory. That is that black people are bad because they heard bad narratives. You can see one's real motives in their abandonment of their own logic. If that were true, and black people were more likely to hear about Harriet Tubman and slavery, then maybe if the narratives one grew up with were to blame we should stop feeding those narratives to children. But that wouldn't feed into their anti-white ideology. But of course we know that real reason blacks can't get along in society. It's genetics, and the real science backs it up.
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