Frankfurt School Puns

Especially for Marcuse

So I just learned about these guys yesterday and from my understanding, These guys are the reason why Marxism is popular in the West and the reason why the Sexual Revolution happened. If you wanna know what I think about them, just scroll to my way older posts and you should probably figure out where I stand in this position

Critical theory has become a highly talked about subject in recent times. It finds its major influences in the intellectual tradition of the Frankfurt School, and in postmodern power theory. The videos listed below discuss this intellectual lineage, and will hopefully offer you more context about critical theory, and its intellectual vices, virtues and variations.

1. The Frankfurt School: The seminal video on critical theory by Dr. Sugrue. This presents a brief history of the main people and ideas behind the school of thought that had the greatest influence on critical theory.
2. Foucault: Power, Knowledge and Poststructuralism: Foucault is one of the most cited authors in the modern social sciences and is a seminal influence on modern critical theory. Where the Frankfurt school provides a political philosophy and analytical framework, Foucault provides a systematic view of the world that privilege's language, and the way we construct our world out of it.
3. Habermas' Critical Theory: Habermas, a leading figure in the Frankfurt school, presents a critical theory that diverges from Foucault's postmodernism. It is in many ways an alternative to contemporary critical theory's emphasis the subjective and collective, and offers a framework for radical criticism of society that rescues notions of objective truth & human rationality.

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This is a collection of people and groups that shaped leftism in America.

The Frankfurt School, known more appropriately as Critical Theory, is a philosophical and sociological movement spread across many universities around the world. It was originally located at the Institute for Social Research (Institut für Sozialforschung), an attached institute at the Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany.

The academic influence of the critical method is far reaching. Some of the key issues and philosophical preoccupations of the School involve the critique of modernity and capitalist society, the definition of social emancipation, as well as the detection of the pathologies of society. Critical Theory provides a specific interpretation of Marxist philosophy with regards to some of its central economic and political notions like commodification, reification, fetishization and critique of mass culture.

The members of the Frankfurt School conducted numerous studies on the beliefs, attitudes and values they believed lay behind the rise of National Socialism in Germany. The Frankfurt School’s studies combined Marxist analysis with Freudian psychoanalysis to form the basis of what became known as “Critical Theory.” Critical Theory was essentially destructive criticism of the main elements of Western culture, including Christianity, capitalism, authority, the family, patriarchy, hierarchy, morality, tradition, sexual restraint, loyalty, patriotism, nationalism, heredity, ethnocentrism, convention and conservatism. These criticisms were reflected in such works of the Frankfurt School as Erich Fromm’s Escape from Freedom and The Dogma of Christ, Wilhelm’s Reich’s The Mass Psychology of Fascism and Theodor Adorno’s The Authoritarian Personality.

The Authoritarian Personality, published in 1950, substantially influenced American psychologists and social scientists. The book was premised on one basic idea, that the presence in a society of Christianity, capitalism and the patriarchal-authoritarian family created a character prone to racial prejudice and German fascism. The Authoritarian Personality became a handbook for a national campaign against any kind of prejudice or discrimination on the theory that if these evils were not eradicated, another Holocaust might occur on the American continent. This campaign, in turn, provided a basis for Political Correctness.

Critical Theory incorporated sub-theories whi

Can someone debunk this new-right hype and conspiracy theorizing about cultural marxism/frankfurt school,being a huge scheme founded by soros and linked to ecology/lgtb/marijuana, etc? It's growing a lot where I live,the youth either dont care about politics or are starting to hate the socialist ideas.

the left miliancy is a buroguise club here,so they arent helping,either.

https://youtu.be/h6eJ3O3uXdk?t=30

Some choice excerpts:

“He (Herbert Marcuse) started critical theory, which is nothing more than Marxist ideology”

“Marx argued everything would be the working man versus the profiteering business man... Marcuse didn’t believe that, he said that really we’re nothing more than tribal groups... it’s really skin color that matters”

“Angela Davis has done more for the destruction of civil society than any person I can think of”

“Martin Luther King rightfully built an entire movement trying to say “I don’t care about the color of your skin, it’s about the content of your character’” You have to ignore literally everything else MLK did for that single quote to believe this.

He also claimed that the idea that every life matters comes exclusively from the Bible.

im from the ROA(republic of argentina). if anyone pays attention to here,theyll know the Right is making a huge comeback. besides liberal-libertarian economics becoming popular, there is a big conspiracy saying communists are behind gays,feminists, ecology,etc.

Is there any way I can,in spanish language,help combat these tendencies and strands? I admit I dont care much about gender issues but im concerned about poverty,hunger, stopping the luxury-class,etc. And anyways telling lies and being deceitful isnt a good way to do things.

another author has a book saying che guevara was racist,killed gays, was a bad father,etc. So far no youtuber or influencer has done a detailed debunking, I might try it if i find a way to make videos without showing face,just voice.

Specifically, Escape From Freedom by Erich Fromm?

It is a psychological analysis of the rise of Nazism and is based as fuck.

Feels particularly relevant these days.

Just share your thoughts on the school and if applicable any experience with it.

So I've been interested in philosophy for a long time and recently got even more interested in postmodernism and the Frankfurt School movement. I find it really interesting and I bought some books. Right now I'm reading Minima Moralia by Theodor Adorno and although I find a lot of it to be really thought provoking and interesting, I many times feel as though a lot of the concepts are flying over my head.

I of course understand that these writers sometimes use ambiguity on purpose but I'm just wondering if I should go in to reading these books with a different mindset. Is it perhaps more about understanding the overall concept and feeling rather than grasping every single line of text, or will I just cheat myself completely by not researching every single bit i don't understand?

I find this stuff very interesting and want to read more but I'm fairly new to this field of sociology and philosophy and was wondering if anyone had any tips or good videos to introduce me to this?

Thanks in advance <3

I've heard people mention they were critical of Marxism, and from others that they were Marxists themselves. Is the label "Frankfurt School" just a broad stroke term for a bunch of different thinkers, or is there actually some unifying idea that they mostly had that the term refers to?

Reading D of E and I'm wondering what genuine critiques of Adorno and Horkheimer, and broadly critical theory in general, exist. So far I've found 5 types, 2 of which are not progressive;

i) reactionary (Alt Right conspiracy theory etc.),

ii) in favour of a more class reductionist, positivist leftist analysis than they offered (sadly adjacent to the conspiracy theory)

Of the remaining takes:

iii) Benjamin's refutation that mass culture is inherently oppressive, an assumption from which (I think?) a lot of New Left analysis of 20th century society follows. I haven't read *Art in the Age of Mechanical Production*, but it seems like Benjamin shared optimism about the revolutionary potential of mass culture like Gramsci?

iv) various feminist critiques that they were still primarily marginalising women's voices (which I think is valid, but has already been addressed by intersectional feminism)

v) arguably Zizek's postmodern/anti-ideology take, where even critical theory is ideology

If you know of James Lindsay's criticism of critical theory, he argues that it's based in *ad hoc* at this point, i.e. cannot have its epistemic authority questioned. I like to believe this is just part of the right-wing grift. But as far as I can see critical theory informs a lot of popular radical discourse even among those who haven't...critically engaged with it.

Another criticism the Right uses is to point at e.g. Breadtube (which transparently is counter-hegemonic Antifascist praxis, informed by critical theory, using the corporate monopoly of Youtube to expand itself) and saying that using corporate limelight to dismantle capitalism is at best, naive (because you'll HAVE to sell out in the end) and at worst, makes one part of the problem. And then they point to ulterior motives i.e. "they were the REAL fascists all along" etc. Again, the fact that Breadtube is blatantly doing this and at this point is itself sponsored *by* minor progressive corporations (e.g. Abigail/PhilosophyTube and Curiosity Stream), makes it impossible to distance from that criticism. Instead, you have to move to some sort of 'ends justify the means' argument, and the people I try to engage with are usually obstinate centrists (or reactionaries hiding behind that label) who simply see "big government bad, monopoly bad" and will only accept grassroots resistance.

I worry that it would require unreasonable amounts of time studying critical theory before I can find good-faith, non-reactionary