Marcus was a part of the frankfurt school that hitler expelled from germany in the 1930’s. their followers like Marcus came to universities like berkeley in the west and columbia in the east. they practiced something called critical theory. the basic idea of critical theory was to undermine and ultimately collapse every institution in the west—including the institution of marriage—so that the state would enjoy complete and unfettered control.
It was another member of the frankfurt school— A man by the name of Adorno who engineered a world famous slight of hand in the early 1950’s. In that slight of hand the nazi were transferred from being another leftist organization like the communists—to being another conservative organization on the far right.
This slight of hand took advantage of jewish grievances and suspicion over the events of the mccarthy era.
For the decades prior to the 1950’s the nazis and the communists were considered to both be leftist organization with the nazis being left and the communists being further left.
The New York Times picked up on Adorno’s category shift and that became the stamp of American politics ever since. That basically morally hobbled the republican party.
In the 1990’s a Harvard professor invented critical race theory which is an extension of critical theory —designed to do the same thing as adorno’s nazi slight of hand—only this time playing on historical black american grievances.
The rest is history.
My right to protest is meaningless unless my protest ends up with me as dictator.
THERE WAS ONLY ONE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THEM - THE OWNERSHIP OF INDUSTRY. AMAZING,EVERYTHING BAD THAT HAPPENED TO THE BLACK RACE IN THIS COUNTRY WAS AT THE HANDS OF DEMOCRATS!
Adorno wrote “The Authoritarian Mind” in the 1950s, we studied it and “Critical theory” when I was studying at university.
It certainly didn’t have the intended effect on me, I suspect. A little older and wiser, I immediately realized he wasn’t describing “conservatives”; but precisely nailed down the whack job progressives that I knew. To a man, they were deeply resentful or jealous of success, and exhibited an unhealthy and undeniable “control freak” mindset.
Nothing I have seen since in the ensuing decades has persuaded me that my initial assessment was mistaken, no, only reinforced tenfold.