Title: The Cognitive Dimension of White Supremacy and the Limits of Bridging Group Divides: A Comparison of Mills and Marx’s Critiques

Discuss how Mills’s point/s about the “cognitive” dimension of white supremacy show the blocks/difficulties in bridging (through public debate and policy) group divides (antagonisms) and establishing common/shared justice (against coercion and violence), and how this outlook parallels, but distinguishes, from Marx’s “opposition theory” emphasis on “class” divides in his political-economic critique. Last, consider how such “opposition”/critical theories focus on social, group dynamics, more than a relation between liberal, individual debating opponents, and shows the limits on only an emphasis on individual freedoms, agency, and rights.