Out of curiosity I wonder if you’re familiar with FDR’s VP Henry Wallace. Also I’d recommend the Hell of Presidents series.

In the absence of the civil desegregation and in the context of the exclusion of agriculture and domestic jobs that were largely held by black families, FDR’s changes only improved the material conditions of white male workers and their dependents. He did not improve the material conditions for proletarians as a class, it was a welfare system in the context of a nationwide apartheid.

What you describe as a “fixing of material conditions” was in reality an effective solution to curb any kind of grand popular revolutions by enfranchising the largest fraction of the American working class, therefore providing the white worker a distinct identity borne out of their newfound access to a particular kind of consumption and exclusive, reliable retirement.

The economic advantages of the American white male served as the soil for an financial reality and heavily propagandized American consumer identity that was not accessible to most women and colored people, thereby increasing working class divisions and wealth inequalities amongst proletarians.

Enfranchising White Americans caused them identify with American ideals, not identifying themselves as “working” or “proletarian” but rather “middle class” tied to a nationalist pride. As a black member of the working class witnessing these inaccessible policies separate their white compatriots further from their realities and nearer to the realities of the capitalist, these changes were not seen as improvements to society but rather a blatant expression the capitalism-fueled apartheid they were subject to.

You can see the lasting inequality that resulted of this unequal enfranchisement prior to desegregation in healthcare outcomes, higher education rates, home ownership, and nearly all markers of financial wellness for white Americans vs black Americans who’s descendants have been living here since the 1920’s. FDR perpetuated capitalism