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Added a background section to highlight what motivates these people
Even though in reality the baby boomers of 1960s were most free, most affluent and most privileged of any youth in any age, they were bored with their lives and swallowed the Frankfurt school's [[propaganda]] in form of books like ''The Death of the Family'', ''Escape from Freedom'', ''Sexual Revolution'', ''The Joy of Sex'', ''The Authoritarian Personality'' and counter-culture drug movies like ''Easy rider'', ''The wild angels'', and ''Born Losers'', attacking especially a family unit as a [[Christian]] institution and basic building block of middle class. So along came movies like ''The battle of the sexes'', ''How to murder your wife'' which depicted the family as sexually repressed and dysfunction and instilled the cultural pessimism about families.<ref name="JaegerFilms">{{cite web |title=CULTURAL MARXISM: The Corruption of America |publisher=James Jaeger films |url=https://youtu.be/gIdBuK7_g3M?t=1392 |accessdate=7 Aug 2016}}</ref>
Even though in reality the baby boomers of 1960s were most free, most affluent and most privileged of any youth in any age, they were bored with their lives and swallowed the Frankfurt school's [[propaganda]] in form of books like ''The Death of the Family'', ''Escape from Freedom'', ''Sexual Revolution'', ''The Joy of Sex'', ''The Authoritarian Personality'' and counter-culture drug movies like ''Easy rider'', ''The wild angels'', and ''Born Losers'', attacking especially a family unit as a [[Christian]] institution and basic building block of middle class. So along came movies like ''The battle of the sexes'', ''How to murder your wife'' which depicted the family as sexually repressed and dysfunction and instilled the cultural pessimism about families.<ref name="JaegerFilms">{{cite web |title=CULTURAL MARXISM: The Corruption of America |publisher=James Jaeger films |url=https://youtu.be/gIdBuK7_g3M?t=1392 |accessdate=7 Aug 2016}}</ref>
==Background==
The early leaders of Critical theory re-located to America and after living here and seeing it first hand, quickly began to realize the flaws of Marx's thinking. They were honest with themselves about what they saw first hand, that Marx's ideas are incorrect and that [[Capitalism]] does indeed work. Recognizing this, they realized that in order to affect change within the system, any flaw real or perceived must be amplified to create a sense of misery. Horkheimer said:<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBaY09Qi-w0 Critical Theory]</ref>
<blockquote>This sociology went beyond the critical theory of society conceived by Marx in order to reflect reality more adequately. One point is very important. For Marx had the ideal of a society of free human beings. He believed that this capitalist society would necessarily have to be overcome by the solidarity spelled by the increasing immiseration of the working class. <b>This idea is wrong. This society in which we live does not immiserate the workers but helps them to build a better life. And apart from that. Marx did not see that freedom and justice are dialectical concepts.</b> The more freedom, the less justice and the more justice, the less freedom. The critical theory which I concieved later is based on the idea that one cannot determine, what is good, what a good, a free society would look like from within the society which we live in. We lack the means. But in our work we can bring up the negative aspects of this society, which we want to change.</blockquote>
The only way to achieve the goals of Marxism was to reject the failures of Marxist ideology and proceed with a new plan.
==Immanent critique==
==Immanent critique==