A Few Words on the Frankfurt School

The Frankfurt School was endowed by a German Millionaire’s son Felix Weil. The original name for the school was “Institute for Marxism” but upon reflection, the founders decided it would be better to hide their identity and renamed it “Institute for Social Research.” Thus we have proven that Cultural Marxism — that which flowed from the Frankfurt school — was indeed Marxist even if not of the classically Marxist nature.
Those who insist that Cultural Marxism doesn’t exist are either fools or agents of misinformation.

Georg Lukacs, a Hungarian who was a major villain in the short-lived Hungarian Communist Government of 1919, saw the Frankfurt School (Cultural Marxists) as the answer to the question: ‘Who shall save us from Western civilization.’

The views of those who were the animating forces behind the Frankfurt School (Cultural Marxism) were that the Biblically informed culture of Western societies was acting as a block on the Communist Revolution. Their resolution — a methodology differing from Classical Marxism — was to attack the undergirding cultural substructures of Western Civilization hoping to alienate a large percentage of the population from the culture they inhabited having convinced that portion of the population of the putative inherent injustice and wickedness of the Biblical categories that undergirded Western civilization. The goal here was, in the words of early cultural Marxist Willie Munzenberg, “We must organize the intellectuals and use them to make Western civilization stink.

The cultural Marxists sought to offer up cultural revolution by means of boring from within. This was revolution by an incremental evolutionary process — a technique the Fabian-Socialists long advocated and practiced. The expectation here was not invasion from without, nor by some kind of political process alone. The Frankfurt school desired to kill the host West as a parasite sucking the life from within. Think of the Sigourney Weaver film, “Alien.” Slowly, surely, incrementally the parasite takes over the host until it kills the host culture by boring within.

Joseph de Maistre, at the beginning of the 19th century, characterized it as follows:

“Until now, nations were killed by conquest, that is by invasion. But here an important question arises: can a nation not die on its own soil, without resettlement or invasion, by allowing the flies of decomposition to corrupt to the very core those original and constituent principles which make it what it is?”

This is exactly what has happened to the West via the successful machinations of the Frankfurt school. First setting up their home base at Columbia University the Frankfurt school exercised massive influence by slowly but steadily salting the whole American University system nation-wide as combined with an ambitious publishing agenda wherein previous Western categories of thought were reinterpreted through a Cultural Marxist grid.  Toss in the sexual revolution pushed by the work of Cultural Marxists Ordono and Horkheimer and it becomes clear that the Frankfurt school has been instrumental in successfully making the West stink.

Author: jetbrane

I am a Pastor of a small Church in Mid-Michigan who delights in my family, my congregation and my calling. I am postmillennial in my eschatology. Paedo-Calvinist Covenantal in my Christianity Reformed in my Soteriology Presuppositional in my apologetics Familialist in my family theology Agrarian in my regional community social order belief Christianity creates culture and so Christendom in my national social order belief Mythic-Poetic / Grammatical Historical in my Hermeneutic Pre-modern, Medieval, & Feudal before Enlightenment, modernity, & postmodern Reconstructionist / Theonomic in my Worldview One part paleo-conservative / one part micro Libertarian in my politics Systematic and Biblical theology need one another but Systematics has pride of place Some of my favorite authors, Augustine, Turretin, Calvin, Tolkien, Chesterton, Nock, Tozer, Dabney, Bavinck, Wodehouse, Rushdoony, Bahnsen, Schaeffer, C. Van Til, H. Van Til, G. H. Clark, C. Dawson, H. Berman, R. Nash, C. G. Singer, R. Kipling, G. North, J. Edwards, S. Foote, F. Hayek, O. Guiness, J. Witte, M. Rothbard, Clyde Wilson, Mencken, Lasch, Postman, Gatto, T. Boston, Thomas Brooks, Terry Brooks, C. Hodge, J. Calhoun, Llyod-Jones, T. Sowell, A. McClaren, M. Muggeridge, C. F. H. Henry, F. Swarz, M. Henry, G. Marten, P. Schaff, T. S. Elliott, K. Van Hoozer, K. Gentry, etc. My passion is to write in such a way that the Lord Christ might be pleased. It is my hope that people will be challenged to reconsider what are considered the givens of the current culture. Your biggest help to me dear reader will be to often remind me that God is Sovereign and that all that is, is because it pleases him.

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