JF

I feel like you're beating around the bush. You say "white supremacy aids those things" and then go on to say observing white supremacy is "pseudo-radical critique", so which is it? Does it exist as "objective social reality" or not? Are racial inequalities man-made or genetic?

Obviously inequalities are man-made. The point is that there's nothing particular radical about formulating them this way. It's just as useful to the ruling class as it is to the working class.

It's pretty clear to anyone paying attention to politics that claims about white supremacy do not necessarily lead to a radical program, but that seems like a different question than how correct they are

Why would it? That's precisely the basis on which actual socialists press the claim of the working class

Sorry, I don't think I really understand what you mean.

The reason working class politics is desirable, and that Marx dedicated his life promoting them, is precisely the theory that it will be effective against the current state of the world, currently determined by ruling class politics.

If there's no basis to believe that opposition to white supremacy will produce a politics capable of transforming the world, that's actually a pretty good indication that what's currently determining the course of history is not white supremacy.

This is 100 percent not a class analysis, because white supremacism is a traditional belief upheld by sections of the American ruling-class. It's like trying to understand politics without knowing what a liberal or a conservative worldview is.