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This is an amazingly silly counter-factual, but its actually no worse in this regard than the "Soviet Union embraces Objectivism" that someone just posted, so OK here it is.

Frankfort School Marxism suffers from being mostly described by its critics, but the most neutral short description I can come up with is that it replaces the working class as the center of class struggle with various culturally marginalized groups. The Frankfort School theorists IOTL came about after the creation of the Soviet Union.

What if Russian intellectuals, for whatever reason is germane to 19th century Russian intellectual life, came up with the same ideas in a Russia context, and whoever won the early power struggles in the Soviet Union made cultural Marxism the center of Soviet ideology.
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