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 Posted: Mon Oct 19, 2009 4:19 am |
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by Kevin MacDonald
Thomas Wheatland's book, The Frankfurt School in Exile, provides a
useful historical account of the travels, connections, and ideas of an
important Jewish intellectual movement. The Institute for Social
Research began as an orthodox Marxist organization during the Weimar
period. During this period, they were dedicated to studying the class
struggle and were often in close contact with members of the German
Communist Party. Like several other members of the Institute, Max
Horkheimer, who became head of the Institute, came from a wealthy
background, but like so many Jewish radicals, had a "moral and
emotional" opposition to bourgeois society (p. 15).
Wheatland agrees with other scholars that a persistent motivation of
the Frankfurt School was to understand why a working class revolution
failed to occur in Germany. Two main theoretical thrusts emerged from
this realization: a critique that located ethnic prejudice, backward
religious attitudes and lack of revolutionary fervor in the family,
and a critique of mass culture seen as promoting passivity and
escapism rather than revolutionary consciousness. Part I of this
review deals with the first of these issues. Part II will discuss the
theory of mass culture and interactions between the Frankfurt School
and the New York Intellectuals.
The Frankfurt School Finds Authoritarianism in the Family
Since Marxist revolution was so obviously desirable to the Frankfurt
Intellectuals, they developed a theory in which the failure of
revolution could be attributed to psychopathology in the family. As
reviewed here, the epitome of psychological health was the "genuine
liberal" - a radical individualist who is completely detached from all
ingroups, including race and family. White people who rejected their
family as role models were analyzed as psychologically healthy, while
those who had positive views of their parents were analyzed as
psychologically inadequate.
Such a view is obviously subversive of traditional values, since
competent parents transmit their religious and cultural values to
their children, and at the time of the study, many of these competent
White parents had a sense of White racial identity which they were
transmitting to their children. The Frankfurt School was essentially
claiming that White families who successfully transmitted their
ethnocentric attitudes to their children were pathological - a view
for which there isn't a shred of evidence. (Needless to say, the
successful transmission of Jewish identity to Jewish children was not
considered a pathology.)
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