Frankfurt School

I wanted to ask you a question about that point you make about the revolutionary potential of the proletariat.

What are your thoughts on the arguments of those who came out of the Frankfurt School, like Marcuse and others, who said that after World War II and the implementation of the New Deal, that the satiation of the American working class removed their revolutionary potential and that they in fact became reactionaries.

And that's why they look towards students as being the revolutionary potential classes and basically gave up on the American working class because they were too satiated by the benefits of the New Deal.

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And that's the whole idea behind wokeness.

That's the whole idea is that you are blind, but now you see and see what? Well, Nick, don't you see the invisible systems of oppression that are set up against your happiness? But once you eat of the freedom of Rome and the progressive ideas of the Frankfurt School and taste the laissez-faire sexual attitudes of the French Revolution and embrace the oh-so-obvious class struggle between the proletariat and the bourgeois, then you will see a no.

And once you see and once you eat, then you'll comprehend the struggle.

So once your eyes are truly open, you'll become like a god.

And anyways, you just go down.

This continues.

Herbert Mark Hughes, The Frankfurt School and one of the fathers of the free love movement in California said that the way back into the garden is to take another bite of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

Anyway, I'm on my soapbox, homeschool soapbox now.

But I think also if we go back in, you know, Edward Said famously said in 1983 in New York City at Columbia University, that he was the last remaining Jewish intellectual.

And he said that Jewish scholars have become sort of, he said it, fat scribes in the suburbs, and that he was the last Jewish intellectual, and that he was the inheritor of the Frankfurt School of Thought.

The Frankfurt School of Thought was an important philosophical movement created mainly by Jewish Holocaust survivors.

who in the aftermath of the Shoah were trying to grapple with antisemitism, totalitarianism.

They were trying to kind of unpack what had just transpired in Europe.

about the paradox.

I was a Frankfurt School guy.

I was an Adorno fan.

I'm taking it back.

Yeah, well, look, that's why I love the book too, The Last Stand, Christ or Chaos, The War for the West, is it's not just necessarily about looking at one or two issues, but it seems like you take to task the church in general, like you just did for the last few minutes.

But you also, you know, you draw like a direct line from the French Revolution to the Frankfurt School to what's happening in America right now.

Can you kind of give us that through thread and give us a little teaser within the book of how you make those connections?

So the left understood some time ago, bro, that everything that Marx and Engels about they thought that everything was economics by the way a lot of christians today are fun we think it was tinker with the numbers and solve stuff um like we have to be careful not to be functional but They thought that, you know, well, if we can just mobilize the workers of the world and remind them how oppressed they are.

They had a whole forum.

A lot of people aren't aware of this.

Some people heard of the Frankfurt School.

A lot of people don't know how that all came together.

Yeah, well, look, that's why I love the book to the last hand Christ or chaos the war for the West is it's not just necessarily looking at one or two issues, but it seems like you take to task the church in general, like you just did for the last few minutes.

But you also, you know, you draw like a direct line from the French revolution to the Frankfurt school to what's happening in America right now.

Can you kind of give us that through thread and give us a little teaser within the book of how you make those connections?

So the left understood some time ago, bro, that everything that Marx and Engels promised didn't come about.

They had a whole forum.

A lot of people aren't aware of this.

Some people heard of the Frankfurt School.

A lot of people don't know how that all came together.

Yeah, well, look, that's why I love the book to the last hand Christ or chaos the war for the West is it's not just necessarily looking at one or two issues, but it seems like you take to task the church in general, like you just did for the last few minutes.

But you also, you know, you draw like a direct line from the French revolution to the Frankfurt school to what's happening in America right now.

Can you kind of give us that through thread and give us a little teaser within the book of how you make those connections?

So the left understood some time ago, bro, that everything that Marx and Engels promised didn't come about.

They had a whole forum.

A lot of people aren't aware of this.

Some people heard of the Frankfurt School.

A lot of people don't know how that all came together.

and as with the rest of this series, this list is far from complete, but hopefully it will illustrate how philosophy is being done today.

We'll present some authors focused on ethics, epistemology, logic, and philosophy of language, with a few outliers in between, just as we did with the Frankfurt School alumni, Naturalism and Experimental Philosophy.

First off, ethics.

As we've seen, ethics had a wide array of developments during the 20th century.

Christine Korsgaard, on the other hand, focuses on the self in a neo-Kantian fashion, arguing for the existence of a moral practical identity which we all have and which orients us.

Morality is thus a practical endeavor, and through autonomy we are able to recognize the importance of ethical obligations and therefore follow them.

Let's now go to the Frankfurt School.

As we know, the Frankfurt School was one of the most influential seedbeds of the 20th century, especially within continental philosophers.