/lit/ - Literature

Some people claim the Frankfurt School was ultimately the source of the postwar inversion of westerm values. Adorno was literally partially was after he started working with the American Jewish Committee and wrote The Authoritarian Personality. See Paul Gottfried's (a student of Marcuse) work on this in After Liberalism. However this was actually a turn from Adorno's prior work, Gottfried argues calling the New Left "cultural Marxism" is a misnomer because it actually came from Adorno turning away from revolution and becoming an establishment shill (Gottfried gives the example of Adorno saying being suspicious of government is indicative of fascist personality, whereas Gottfried says any serious Marxist would believe working-class hostility to the liberal governmenr is healthy).