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[edit | edit source]
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[edit | edit source]
Theodor Adorno[edit | edit source]
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[edit | edit source]
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[edit | edit source]
Marcuse rejected the vanguard party. Unlike Adorno, he supported the anti-war movement.[2]
Ideology[edit | edit source]
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[edit | edit source]
Nazis[edit | edit source]
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[edit | edit source]
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[edit | edit source]
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Stansfield Smith (2022-07-02). "US national security state censoring anti-imperialists to control ‘compatible left’" Geopolitical Economy Report. Archived from the original on 2023-05-25.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 Gabriel Rockhill (2022-06-27). "The CIA & the Frankfurt school’s anti-communism" MR Online. Archived from the original on 2023-06-01.