1. The idea that “racism is innate.”
2. The idea that ‘white’ workers “benefit” from “white race” privileges. (Allen argues that the “white race” privileges are a “poison bait,” like a shot of heroin -- ruinous to the interests of workers)
On this topic people may be interested in the following links --
Jeffrey B. Perry, The Developing Conjuncture and Some Insights From Hubert Harrison and Theodore W. Allen on the Centrality of the Fight Against White Supremacy
The video of a Slide Presentation-Talk on Theodore W. Allen’s The Invention of the White Race