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  • Most of my early work was on Marxism, and I've written a book on a group called the Frankfurt School, which is a group of 20th-century Marxists.

    The Coming War with Japan 1991

  • The ACW Review examined the corrosive work of the 'Frankfurt School' - a group of German-American scholars who developed highly provocative and original perspectives on contemporary society and culture, drawing on Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, and Weber.

    unknown title 2009

  • Instead of training their sights on the economic base, these Marxists -- later known as the Frankfurt School -- preferred to concentrate on the cultural realm.

    Capitalism and Its Malcontent 2008

  • When Marx failed to get workers of the world to unite, a splinter group known as the Frankfurt School came to America and imbued its cultural "values" into the mainstream fabric of America, forever perverting the culture with a social technology known as critical theory.

    National Policy Institute admin 2010

  • The Institute of Social Research continued, but what was known as the Frankfurt School did not.

    unknown title 2009

  • Patricia Mills’ _Woman, Nature, and Psyche_ produces a sharp feminist critique of Hegel, Marx, Freud, and the Critical Theory of the so-called Frankfurt School while carrying out discussions of the ways that Critical Theory does and does not provide adequate perspectives for contemporary feminism.

    More on Minow and Harvard Law School’s treatment of Stephanie Grace 2010

  • She was an incongruous cheerleader, this petite olive skinned teen with the flashing dark eyes, tiny waist, big chest and bigger voice, reading the French existentialists and Frankfurt School theorists and Italian anarchists, decrying the war in Vietnam while cheering those poor boys of Lakeland, perpetual losers, some of whom would go on to lose their lives in southeast Asia.

    Jeanne's Song, 2010 2010

  • By this account, sexual pleasure becomes what Theodor Adorno, founder of the mid-twentieth-century Frankfurt School of social theory, condemned as a biological trick to preserve the species.

    BREAKFAST WITH SOCRATES ROBERT ROWLAND SMITH 2010

  • By this account, sexual pleasure becomes what Theodor Adorno, founder of the mid-twentieth-century Frankfurt School of social theory, condemned as a biological trick to preserve the species.

    BREAKFAST WITH SOCRATES ROBERT ROWLAND SMITH 2010

  • In a recent profile in the New Yorker magazine, Breitbart – maybe tongue-in-cheek, maybe not – expressed a belief that President Barack Obama's election was the culmination of a plot, set in place in the 1930s by émigré members of the Frankfurt School – dissident Marxists – to take over Hollywood, the media, academia, and the government, with the aim of imposing socialism.

    Andrew Breitbart: profile of a shock jock 2010

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