eugyppius

...will tell you that its is because white supremacists at the top are manipulating events against them. Ask the non-College educated rwer why that is and they will again reference a conspiracy of certain elites, usually of a particular early life.

But in high society, conspiracies are verboten (why?). So these theorists postulate "emergent behavior" of forces originating in long past historical events. These theories are entirely historicist in nature, eliminating the individual agency of certain bad actors.

Anyways feel free to critique this idea, kind of brainstorming here.

First, I think the proper comparison would be to critical theory, rather than to critical race theory, which is just a subfield of the broader system. Critical theory, very roughly and among other things, holds that power relationships are socially constructed …

… the product of cultural discourses; and that these power relationships and their attendant injustices can be redressed by socially & discursively constructing them away. At root critical theory emerges from the radical ‚environmentalism‘ of the left …

… which holds that we are all more or less infinitely malleable products of our social environment and that the solution to all problems lies somewhere in social or educational or cultural reform. Critical theory arises from the elaboration of prior theoretical beliefs …

… rather than observation of the world, and is at base not very rigorous. NRx, on the other hand, is at base just an attempt to describe how power seems to work in western societies. Earlier, related theories by Burnham (Managerial Revolution) …

… were about how apparent ideological distinctions between Soviet and western democratic systems masked what was at base a fundamentally similar power structure, which in both case rested on complex bureaucracies geared to the management of mass society.