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 When Dr Ibram Kendi says that “capitalism is essentially racist and racism is essentially capitalist” I can't help he has no viable solution. He goes on about antiracist policies but wouldn’t those policies be useless if it’s still a capitalist economy? Does he desire for an entirely new kind of government?

I think that a more nuanced stance on the relations between class and race, definitely between the capitalist mode of production and racism, is Stuart Hall’s essay “Race and Societies Structured in Dominance”. He spends much time articulating the relationship that occurs between race and class in conversation with Karl Marx and various New Left authors.

Dr Ibram Kendi's socialism is not the type of socialism of socialisms past. Dr Kendi falls each time far too short of arriving at a genuinely radical (radical in a good way) politics and instead he recommends a hell of a lot of statist interventions which are fully compatible with capitalism/liberalism (like his Departments of Anti Racism) 

On Dr Kendi's end, it would appear that developing Departments of targeted egalitarianism is the method to fight the horrors of contemporary capitalism. Such policies are decidedly not socialism (CLR James has a compelling work entitled "The Revolutionary Answer to the Negro Problem in the United States which shows the limits of these type of conceptions). Furthermore it does absolutely nothing to make sure that there is no "underclass", it merely ensures that it contains a relatively equal proportion of people from all id groups.

It's somewhat disappointing each time to see support for this type of statist ideologues become so popular, but that's the sad state of our current political state

Dr Kendi is essentially proposing a kind of neoliberalism-preserving antiracism.