"The term "Frankfurt School" arose informally to describe the thinkers affiliated or merely associated with the Frankfurt
Institute for Social Research; it is not the title of any specific position or institution
per se, and few of these theorists used the term themselves. The Institute for Social Research (
Institut für Sozialforschung) was founded in 1923 by
Carl Grünberg, a Marxist legal and political professor at the
University of Vienna,
[10] as an adjunct of the
University of Frankfurt; it was the first Marxist-oriented research center affiliated with a major German university.
[4] However, the school can trace its earliest roots back to
Felix Weil, who used money from his father's grain business to finance the
Institut.
Weil (1898–1975), a young Marxist, had written his
doctoral thesis (published by
Karl Korsch) on the practical problems of implementing socialism. With the hope of bringing different trends of Marxism together, Weil organized a week-long symposium (the
Erste Marxistische Arbeitswoche) in 1922 in
Ilmenau,
Thuringia, a meeting attended by
Georg Lukács,
Karl Korsch,
Karl August Wittfogel,
Friedrich Pollock and others. The event was so successful that Weil set about erecting a building and funding salaries for a permanent institute. Weil negotiated with the Ministry of Education that the Director of the Institute would be a full professor from the state system, so that the
Institut would have the status of a University institution.
[11]
Georg Lukács and Karl Korsch both attended the
Arbeitswoche, which had included a study of Korsch's
Marxism and Philosophy—but both were too committed to political activity and Party membership to join the
Institut, though Korsch participated in publishing ventures for a number of years. The way Lukács was obliged to repudiate his
History and Class Consciousness, published in 1923 and probably a major inspiration for the work of the Frankfurt School, indicated that independence from the
Communist Party was necessary for genuine theoretical work.
[11]"
My claim that Engels was a member is indeed false. But as for Lukács, while he may not have been a member of the
Institut, to split hairs over his involvement seems disingenuous. "Lukács was obliged to repudiate his
History and Class Consciousness, published in 1923 and probably a major inspiration for the work of the Frankfurt School", this shows that Lukács had definitely influenced the Frankfurt School, and like it says, it was not a strictly defined thing, therefore trying to exclude him without mentioning his influence is strange. And Lukács was the man who taught extreme sexual promiscuity and rebellious attitudes to anything their elders thought to young teenagers as he believed Christianity and traditional views on sex and the sexes must be destroyed, showing the inherent corrosive nature of Marxism. The difference is that Classical Marxism achieved power through force and used their power to openly destroy traditional society, Stalin fighting the church and wiping out the Kulaks along with Mao's Cultural Revolution are some examples. Cultural Marxism, which is not the Frankfurt School, the School is a apart of Cultural Marxism, is subversive. Using media and business connections to implant the seeds needed to corrode the basis of society. Eventually, the Soviets picked up on how useful this was(or rather is) and started funding their own subversive efforts to undermine the West, as Soviet Defector Yuri Bezmenov
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