Why does nobody talk about these niggas anymore? It's like they've outlived their usefulness both for the Right and the Left to bring them up.
>>18469302>cultural marxismnot even once
>>18469302>>18469327also those are white people not niggas
>>18469302Because their assumptions are literally baked into all modern thought There is nothing to discuss
>>18469328Horkheimer, Adorno, Marcuse were all Jewish
>>18469328Fromm, Pollock, Lowenthak were alsoIt was basically a Jewish research institute to undermine broader German and European homogeneity
>>18469302neonazis talk all the time how they forced them to be trans
>>18469302The Frankfurt school were pinned by Jordan Peterson as the origin of "cultural marxism", the source of critical race theory and postmodernism which saturates left wing rhetoric today. However they weren't all that relevant. It was Foucault, Sartre and others mentioned in another thread.>>18467885Basically the French people who signed that petition, they are the source, although they had some intellectual influences from the Frankfurt School, it surged in popularity with the French while Adorno was harassed and sexually assaulted by boomer hippie students, the woke nosering bluehairs of their time and no less vile and disgusting.>The Busenaktion (breast action) 1969: students protest a lecture by Theodor Adorno and assault him>For the summer semester Adorno planned a lecture course entitled "An Introduction to Dialectical Thinking," as well as a seminar on the dialectics of subject and object. But at the first lecture Adorno's attempt to open up the lecture and invite questions whenever they arose degenerated into a disruption from which he quickly fled: after a student wrote on the blackboard "If Adorno is left in peace, capitalism will never cease," three women students approached the lectern, bared their breasts and scattered flower petals over his head.
>>18469302>The Frankfurt School believed capitalism remained stable because it doesn't rely just on economics, but also on culture, media, education, and psychology to shape how people think and prevent rebellion. "Critical theory" is an explanation how mass media and consumer culture can make people conform and lose independent thought. They also discussed how "authoritarian" systems could potentially emerge from modern society, not just from "bad leaders" but from deeper social and psychological forces.This is literally almost the same thing that a lot of right wingers are claiming as well about modern society and capitalism.
>>18469302The Frankfurt School was a bunch of mid-1900s academics trying to explain why Marx’s revolution never happened in the West. They wrote about media, culture, conformity, and how capitalism shapes thinking. That’s it. They were not writing about “replacing white people,” open borders, trans rights, or inventing modern identity politics. If you think Adorno was secretly drafting 2020s Twitter policy discourse, you’ve basically stopped doing history and started doing fanfiction. Most of what people lump into “Frankfurt School did it” is actually later stuff: civil rights law, feminism, modern liberal politics, bureaucracy, corporate HR culture, etc. You don’t need a shadowy German philosopher cabal to explain late 20th-century policy trends. That’s just laziness with extra steps. If you want to criticize modern politics, at least aim it at the actual actors instead of dragging in dead professors like they’re behind every HR email you’ve ever seen.
>>18469546Right wingers talking about goyslop in consumer culture making people into obedient cattle can almost sound like Adorno who was an aesthete shaped by classical German philosophy and "serious" music / literature and so on. He wasn't vulgar like that it was more industrial capitalism turning culture into repetitive consumption which also closes off critical thought. I like the new Laibach album which satirizes this:https://youtu.be/erR5PSfKo7w
>>18469302https://subliminalsensibility.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/theodor-w-adorno-ontology-and-dialectics.pdf
