Frankfurt School
Frankfurt School has been a Marxist splinter group of leftist pseudo-intellectuals trying, mainly by means of so-called "the long march through the institutions", to corrupt traditional Christian values of Western culture with pseudo-values included in the umbrella term of Cultural Marxism. Their ultimate goal has been to take-over out countries not with guns and weapons, but with pseudo-values and ideas that would change the way that people think and shift them away from the Judeo-Christian values.
Brief History
In 1923, members of the Marxist communist party set up an institute at Frankfurt University in Germany. This institute was named ‘the Institute for social research’. Later it would become known simply as the Frankfurt school. These new Marxists under the direction of Max Horkheimer had seen the old Lenin Marxists fail in their attempt to win the so called “working class” in the West: The workers of the world did not unite in WW I. Further, these new Marxists believed the reason has been found by their comrade Antonio Gramsci, who wrote in his Prison notebooks, a blueprint to de-Christianize the west, that Marxism could only flourish after a long march through the cultural institutions, i.e. institutions like academies, seminaries, newspapers, magazines, radio, film, and what is now known as TV and mass media. The new mantra of Marxists would be: change the western culture and then the workers would unite. Thus, after Marx there were a group of Marxists who wilily decided that you could bring the collectivists society to nation through culture as well by introducing certain pseudo-values and concepts that would, for example, break down the family. If family unit is no longer self-sustaining and no longer valued in the society, then its individual members, who formerly could turn to the family for support in times of need, would now be cut loose, they would be without the place to go and forced to turn to the government and its institutions shaped by the aforementioned "long march" i.e. by sort of gleichschaltung. But just about the march through institutions was about to begin, an anti-marxist and anti-semitic Adolf Hitler ascended to power and WW II began. Thus, the leading representatives of the Frankfurt school packed up its ideology and themselves and fled into America where they settled down at the Columbia University.[1]
Notable representatives and associates
- Theodor Adorno
- Walter Benjamin[2]
- Erich Fromm
- Jürgen Habermas
- Axel Honneth
- Max Horkheimer
- Siegfried Kracauer
- Leo Löwenthal
- Herbert Marcuse
- Paul Massing
- Friedrich Pollock
- Alfred Schmidt
- Felix Weil
- Karl August Wittfogel
See Also
References
- ↑ James Jaeger. [http://www.originalintent.us/html/ Original Intent: How the Democratic and Republican Parties Are Destroying the American Dream] 16min:50sec. James Jaeger Film. Retrieved on 30 Jan 2016.
- ↑ Michael Minnicino (1992). The New Dark Age: The Frankfurt School and 'Political Corectness'. FIDELIO Magazine. Retrieved on 31 Jan 2016. “Benjamin has actually been called the heir of Leibniz and of Wilhelm von Humboldt, the philologist collaborator of Schiller whose educational reforms engendered the tremendous development of Germany in the nineteenth century.”
