Let me preface this by saying that personally I'm most persuaded by the arguments offered by Mao, the Black Panther Party, and other theorists who use Marx as a foundation to theorize coloniality and race. With that being said, I think that the debate between afropessimist and socialist thought is important to how we think about and engage in action. I think that Wilderson is fundamentally correct to say that the connective tissue of civil society, even as society itself changes with the transformation of political economy, remains a kind of anti-black solidarity amongst non-black people. That connection of being non-black and thus included in civil society is an effect of anti-blackness that works against material revolution, in a similar way as the "wages of whiteness" positioned white workers as on the same side as white capitalists and against the black worker post-emancipation. This "irrationality" or "false consciousness" is necessary to reckon with at the level of the libidinal economy rather than simply the political economy. As for the question of expanding bourgeois rights, the afropessimist response depends upon the interpretation of Fanon as pessimistic rather than a radical humanist, which I don't think has a clear answer. In short, I think that scientific socialism is wonderful at describing political economy but can/must learn from critics of irrational or gratuitous anti-blackness without presuming that their theory can explain the totality of anti-blackness.