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Frankfurt School, Critical Theory, and Destruction of the US and Europe

Back in the 1920s the Marxists in Europe came up with a plan to convert western capitalism to communism.

Their innocent sounding name for it was the Frankfurt School. When it came to North America it was welcomed into the Columbia University (college).

[rationalwiki.org]

MarPep 7 Apr 18
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There was no real McCarthyism, it was all mostly fact that the rabid left wants to deny to this day. After the Soviet Union fell, government officials there admitted many facts about the Communist infiltrators in Hollywood, Academia and elsewhere. Some of the old louts wanted to get back at America and enter the leftist coup on Trump. One reason Trump rightly called it a Witch hunt, which the left always called the McCarthy trials, which was not about Witches, but Traitors.

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This is how they got the children...

The radical theory that led to desegregation!

@WilyRickWiles Needed something to cover the real agenda...

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Hello. I just wanted to say thank-you for the post and the subsequent debate. I knew only a little about the Frankfurt School. Very interesting.

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Thanks for posting. It's been a while since i've heard that name. Another early piece of the communist puzzle. My father was a WWII vet & had a particular disdain for that school.

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As the rationalwiki article notes, the influence and intent of the Frankfurt School is distorted and overblown by right-wing conspiracy theorists.

I'd argue that the neoliberal Mont Pelerin Society and nativist and conservative organizations like the John Birch Society have had more influence and done more damage.

What damage has the John Birch Society ever done to the US or Europe? They have always been a pro-constitution and limited government org.

The Mont Pelerin Society has many famous members who are all supporters of free-enterprise, and limited government:
"The Mont Pelerin Society (MPS) is an international classical liberal organization[2] composed of economists, philosophers, historians, intellectuals and business leaders.[3] The members see the MPS as an effort to interpret in modern terms the fundamental principles of economic society as expressed by classical Western economists, political scientists and philosophers. Its founders included Friedrich Hayek, Frank Knight, Karl Popper, Ludwig von Mises, George Stigler and Milton Friedman.[3] The society advocates freedom of expression, free market economic policies and the political values of an open society. Further, the society seeks to discover ways in which free enterprise can replace many functions currently provided by government entities."

Seems to me you must be against free-market capitalism/enterprise and against limiting the power of Government--much like the Communists of the Frankfurt School.

@MarPep MPS was a reaction to the emergence of social democracy. It produced neoliberal and market fundamentalist ideas that have led to less democracy and more inequality in the world.

JBS was a similar reaction to the civil rights movement. It produced McCarthyism and the nativism that has taken over today's Republican Party. It is very selective in the parts of the Constitution it supports. Its values have more in common with feudalism than liberalism.

@WilyRickWiles Just to point out your most obvious error--McCarthy's charges of communists within government started about 1952, and ended a few years later. Mccarthy died in 1957. Robert Welch founded the JBS in 1958. Time has proven McCarthy was correct in nearly all cases. Communits in Government, Media, and Hollywood abounded then and now..

@MarPep My mistake--I was using JBS as a stand-in for the general conservative movement. I couldn't think of another foundational institution, though there were certainly connections between different conservative figures and institutions around that time. Nevertheless, JBS certainly picked up the ball from McCarthy, even if they didn't originate McCarthyism.

@MarPep You seem to be a true believer and see anything that does not promote traditional values as "communist."

Labelling others with the derogatory weaponized term "conspiracy theorists" proves nothing. It is generally a rhetorical device employed by lazy intellects who are short on facts.

If you need evidence of the Frankfurt School’s negative influence; perhaps, an examination of the rampant communism and censorship being passed off as social justice in colleges and universities would be helpful.

@WilyRickWiles You seem to project the faults of the left on the right. The School of Frankfurt infiltrated the academia and shapes the overall rhetoric. Those who graduated these institutions then 'polenized' further the social field. The damage that these pseudo-scholars did/do, is hard to quantify. This is why we need the IDW, and not trolls.

I strongly agree.

It is difficult not to see the binary thinking behind some of the comments. You are either all for unfettered free market capitalism or you are a communist.

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