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A central point in the debate is understanding what CRT truly entails. Izumi describes CRT as a form of racial Marxism—Kuhn’s term for dividing society into oppressor and oppressed classes—but based predominantly on race rather than socioeconomic status. Historically, Marxism divided people by class, with the bourgeoisie and proletariat as key categories. CRT, in contrast, classifies people into oppressors or victims based on racial identity, often assigning Whites and Asians as oppressors and other racial groups as oppressed.