Fran makes an interesting historical point this morning:
The Frankfort School would patent the familiar “Critical Theory” which was accurately defined by a student as the “essentially destructive criticism of all the main elements of Western culture, including Christianity, capitalism, authority, the family, patriarchy, hierarchy, morality, tradition, sexual restraint, loyalty, patriotism, nationalism, heredity, ethnocentrism, convention, and conservatism.” Under Critical Theory, anything emanating from the west is to be libeled and attacked over and over again while at the same time, anything emerging from a “progressive” country or group is to be applauded including the murder of over 100 million people. All blame for societal and economic ills are to be shifted to the [W]est.
These academics, escapees from Hitler’s Germany given shelter in the United States, used their new positions and influence in academia to attempt to undermine everything their host country stood for. We’re now in our third or fourth generation of professors, social scientists and journalists trained at our major universities by adherents of this “School.” No wonder the United States is held to a different standard; no wonder that so many academics seem intent on biting the hand that feeds them. They’re Cultural Marxists, and they’re in an intellectual war with us bourgeoisie.
Emph is his.
It fits, but I wonder how many of the adherents of the Frankfurt school, actually understand whose footsteps there following in? One gets the impression that if they did, we wouldn’t be talking about it.
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