The Frankfort School, New York could possibly be a school of vermin or a school of thought depending on your communistic leanings.
Soviet style Marxism may be dead, but the Institute of Marxism, set up in 1933 at the American University of Columbia then became the Institute of social research and founded the Frankfort school, set up in New York by newly migrants fleeing Nazi Germany. Perhaps the Frankfort school of New York, was for the modern age the beginning of Political Correctness.
An Italian Communist, Antonio Gramsci realised the only way to achieve a Socialist victory was to destroy the Institutions and infiltrate the culture structures of the West(America) and the school employed the "Critical Theory", which is estudiently disciplined as "essentially destructive critiscism of all the main elements of Western culture,including Christianity, capitalism, authority, morality, the patriarchy, hierarchy, family, tradition, sexual restraint, loyalty, patriotism, nationalism, heredity, ethnocentrism, convention and conservatism." In short, the Socialists didn't know what to fawk up next.
The "Critical Theory" multiply attacked and re-buked anything emanating from the West while anything from under developed Progressive countries was to be applauded, however or in whatever manner it was carried out, or however vile it was. The West was now to blame for all ills in society, even though many progressive societies were and proven to be incapable of living in a civilised manner and bought many of their own hereditary ills. The saturation of the "Critical theory" in society by the team of Jewish descendants, led to "Cultural Pessimism" when the native of the country (only if you are from the West because they were the ones that were successful) is taught to hate it , hate the country that raised and nurtured you, loathe it's building institutions(unless they represented the third world), simply because they were superior and functional , and concentrate on all that is bad.
The Critical Theory thesis lead to that any one imbued with conservative, middle-class, Christian values is a racist and a fascist. Thereby those at first were bound naturally to succeed, were now bound to fail.
The Frankfort School of New York, burgeoned that physchological conditioning of culture to suit their image would largely replace the traditional cornerstones of rational argument that led to success. All Americans who refused to conform to the new morality were considered mentally ill and in need of treatment. The Physchiatrist replaces the Priest, crime becomes anti-social behaviour. Contraries to the mindset were "anti-social" attitudes.
The leaders of cultural marxism, set about really in the sixties their era of revolution, freeing the voices of ""radical youth,feminists,black militants, homosexuals, the alienated, the a-social, third world revolutionaries, all the angry voices of the "persecuted" victims of the West.""
The hypothesis known as "tolerance" really became one of the most "intolerant" regimes in the World.
Repressive tolerance meant restriction and disagreement to moves from the right and tolerance to all moves from the left.
excitestaken fromThe Death of the West, Patrick J. Buchanan.