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Presumably they mean Critical Race Theory because that's the one that gets the backlash relating to the term "woke" (which as I understand it, originated as a positive term among black people in the US, as in becoming aware of systemic racism and how it works - then later became a derogatory term used by the right to describe anything and everything they don't like*).
If CRT tries to be capitalism-friendly, I've never heard of such, but it wouldn't shock me either. All I know is it has something to do with studying systemic racism in the US, which is enough to set off the racists. And from some cursory searching and reading just now to look for signs of things being off, it does get described in at least one place as criticizing liberalism for being unable to address racism properly, so that seems like a good sign to me. As someone else pointed out, it could get co-opted by western academia, which is no different than Marxism in general getting co-opted and diluted.
*For this reason, I don't trust anyone at the offset who is anti-woke. Even in this context of saying to do ML instead of woke. Anti-racism is an important part of liberation and ML without it in the US context is gonna look something like patsoc horseshit. China doesn't need CRT or things like it for domestic liberation efforts because they don't have a systemic racism problem. The US needs it explicitly acknowledged and understood.