The Cultural Marxism Industry
In the 1930’s, Theodor Adorno fled Nazi Germany. In America, he studied the Authoritarian Personality. On YouTube, he’s the object of study in a massive conspiracy theory that many have tried (and failed) to debunk.
Chapter two in the new ToE Failure miniseries.
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Adorno Changed My Life
In 2009, film student Georg Bach made a documentary out of user-generated content solicited from members of a Facebook group called Adorno Changed My Life.
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We wonder where people would go today to talk about Adorno.
Adorno Destroyed My Country
On YouTube, Adorno is a central figure in the Cultural Marxism conspiracy theory. In 2010, Martin Jay published an essay in the journal Salamagundai called Dialectic of Counter-Enlightenment: The Frankfurt School as Scapegoat of the Lunatic Fringe to explain his role in the spread of this conspiracy theory and to once and for all debunk it!
He failed.
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He walks us through what went wrong and how we might find a way forward in Adorno and the Frankfurt School’s study of the Authoritarian Personality. Martin’s new essay will be included in a collection forthcoming from Verso.
One comment on “Cultural Marxism Industry”
Would be brilliant if someone can identify the music playing at the end of this episode. Believe it’s from a James Bond film, maybe remixed, but I can’t quite place it.