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[[File:Horkheimer and Adorno.png|thumb|Max Horkheimer (left) and Theodor Adorno (right)]]
The '''Frankfurt School''' is an [[Anti-communism|anti-Soviet]] [[Non-Communist Left|pseudo-left]] group created by the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] and [[Rockefeller Foundation]]. Its leaders [[Theodor Adorno]] and [[Max Horkheimer]] are worshipped in [[Imperial core|Western]] academia.<ref>{{Web citation|author=Stansfield Smith|newspaper=[[Geopolitical Economy Report]]|title=US national security state censoring anti-imperialists to control ‘compatible left’|date=2022-07-02|url=https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2022/07/02/censorship-anti-imperialists-compatible-left/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230525052103/https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2022/07/02/censorship-anti-imperialists-compatible-left/|archive-date=2023-05-25}}</ref>

== History ==
Horkheimer took over the Institute for Social Research in 1930 and soon moved it to the [[United States of America|United States]]. He banned the words "[[Marxism]]," "[[Proletarian revolution|revolution]]," and "[[communism]]" from its publications and forbid political activity.

After the [[Second World War]], the Institute returned to [[Federal Republic of Germany|West Germany]]. Horkheimer and Adorno wrote an article in 1956 defending the [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland|British]], [[French Republic (1946–1958)|French]], and [[State of Israel|Zionist]] invasions of [[United Arab Republic (1958–1971)|Egypt]] and called [[Gamal Abdel Nasser|Nasser]] a "[[Fascism|fascist]] chieftain."<ref name=":0">{{Web citation|author=[[Gabriel Rockhill]]|newspaper=[[MR Online]]|title=The CIA & the Frankfurt school’s anti-communism|date=2022-06-27|url=https://mronline.org/2022/07/06/the-cia-the-frankfurt-schools-anti-communism/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230601095412/https://mronline.org/2022/07/06/the-cia-the-frankfurt-schools-anti-communism/|archive-date=2023-06-01}}</ref>

== Notable members ==

=== Theodor Adorno ===
Adorno was from a [[Bourgeoisie|bourgeois]] family, and his father was a wealthy wine merchant. He never criticized the [[National Socialist German Workers' Party|Nazis]] and assumed they would only target pro-[[Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (1922–1991)|Soviet]] communists. He even justified the [[German Reich (1933–1945)|German]] invasion of the Soviet Union. He rejected all [[praxis]].<ref name=":0" />

=== Max Horkheimer ===
Horkheimer's father was a millionaire who owned several factories. Horkheimer supported West Germany and the [[United States of America|U.S.]] [[Vietnam War|war on Vietnam]]. He believed socializing the [[means of production]] would increase repression.<ref name=":0" />

=== Herbert Marcuse ===
Marcuse rejected the [[vanguard party]]. Unlike Adorno, he supported the [[anti-war]] movement.<ref name=":0" />

== Ideology ==
The Frankfurt School rejects [[Vladimir Lenin|Lenin]]'s belief that theory must be rooted in the [[Proletariat|working class]] and did not define class on an economic basis. When it is not defending fascism, it equates it with Marxism. It uses racist terms to attack [[People's Republic of China|China]] and the Soviet Union. Adorno completely rejected praxis.<ref name=":0" />

== Imperialist connections and funding ==

=== Nazis ===
In 1954, the Frankfurt School signed a research contract with the [[Mannesmann]] corporation, which had founded the [[Anti-Bolshevist League|Anti-Bolshevik League]] and funded the Nazi Party.<ref name=":0" />

=== U.S. government ===
Five of eight of Horkheimer's closest followers worked as analysts or propagandists for the [[Government of the United States of America|U.S. government]]. In 1950, the USA gave the Frankfurt School a grant of 435,000 Marks to move back to Germany.<ref name=":0" />

== See also ==

* [[Post-Marxism]]
* [[Postmodernism]]
* [[Western Marxism]]

== References ==
[[Category:The Compatible Left]]
[[Category:CIA front groups]]
[[Category:Idealism]]