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HarlandKornfeld14 ago

Well, look at who is behind the Frankfurt School, also referred to as Cultural Marxism.

(((Theodore Adorno))), (((Max Horkheimer))), (((Walter Benjamin))), (((Herbert Marcuse))), (((Erich Fromm)) — all major formulators of this ideology are Jews.

Joe_McCarthy ago

And how important is the Frankfurt School? Not very.

Lafall ago

that an Irish name or you just bashing the Anti-Communist nut Joseph who went on Russian/Socialist witch hunts

Joe_McCarthy ago

I'm a big fan of the New York Giants baseball manager.

1Sorry_SOB ago

Joe I would disagree. It set in motion the belief that all races are equal for the western world. This was a huge sea change.

HarlandKornfeld14 ago

It certainly works to crank out a lot of Red Guards in our university system.

Joe_McCarthy ago

Does it necessarily? Marcuse was influential on campus in the 60s but nothing like that now. What tends to predominate now is a more virulent strain of ideology centered around things that Horkheimer was drawn on for inspiration but was not himself involved in. Just darkening demographics should not be discounted as a source for student radicalism either.

HarlandKornfeld14 ago

My interpretation of Cultural Marxism is a critical cultural deconstructivism, attacking traditional cultural structures that allow a society to remain cohesive. A lot of Cultural Marxist literally is as boring as sandpaper and tediously verbose.

Joe_McCarthy ago

Well, yeah, that is the critical theory component. Horkheimer. It tends to deconstruct authority by questioning its legitimacy and by doing so undermining traditional institutions. But what we see on campus now is not reducible to that and that is a forerunner of the virulent movement to deconstruct whiteness in the effort to fight 'white supremacy'.

So the Frankfurt School isn't irrelevant but it is mostly one of them, the founder, that is relevant, and he has been used in much the same way Alain Locke used a more innocuous figure, William James, to craft multiculturalism.

HarlandKornfeld14 ago

Well, I always thought Cultural Marxism was mostly from Adorno. So the stuff about Horkheimer is at least something I didn't know before. So it still serves to deconstruct Whiteness and traditionalism.

Joe_McCarthy ago

Adorno was responsible for that American Jewish Committee publication 'The Authoritarian Personality' which basically equated conservative attitudes with Fascism. But it is not merely enough to say something is a toxic product. It is necessary to demonstrate its influence in actually doing harm.

HarlandKornfeld14 ago

Adorno was responsible for that American Jewish Committee publication 'The Authoritarian Personality' which basically equated conservative attitudes with Fascism.

Well, this meme is everywhere on the Left and it is entrenched pretty deeply.

Joe_McCarthy ago

More or less, yes. But mostly in the last few years. A general tendency on the left to call opponents fascists was absent even as recently as the Bush years. Can we say this all came out of 'The Authoritarian Personality'? Why should we? Why couldn't left-wingers come up with such a smear independently of a somewhat nondescript Jewish intellectual?