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Max Horkheimer (left) and Theodor Adorno (right)

The Frankfurt School is an anti-Soviet pseudo-left group funded by the CIA and Rockefeller Foundation. Its leaders Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer are worshipped in Western academia.[1]

History

Horkheimer took over the Institute for Social Research in 1930 and soon moved it to the United States. He banned the words "Marxism," "revolution," and "communism" from its publications and banned any political activity.

After the Second World War, the Institute returned to West Germany. Horkheimer and Adorno wrote an article in 1956 defending the British, French, and Zionist invasions of Egypt and called Nasser a "fascist chieftain."[2]

Notable members

Theodor Adorno

Adorno was from a bourgeois family, and his father was a wealthy wine merchant. He never criticized the Nazis and assumed they would only target pro-Soviet communists. He even justified the German invasion of the Soviet Union. He rejected all praxis.[2]

Max Horkheimer

Horkheimer's father was a millionaire who owned several factories. Horkheimer supported West Germany and the U.S. war on Vietnam. He believed socializing the means of production would increase repression.[2]

Herbert Marcuse

Marcuse rejected the vanguard party. Unlike Adorno, he supported the anti-war movement.[2]

Ideology

The Frankfurt School rejects Lenin's belief that theory must be rooted in the 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 China and the Soviet Union. Adorno completely rejected praxis.[2]

Imperialist connections and funding

Nazis

In 1954, the Frankfurt School signed a research contract with the Mannesmann corporation, which had founded the Anti-Bolshevik League and funded the Nazi Party.[2]

U.S. government

Five of eight of Horkheimer's closest followers worked as analysts or propagandists for the U.S. government. In 1950, the USA gave the Frankfurt School a grant of 435,000 Marks to move back to Germany.[2]

See also

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