Nattering over the term “critical theory” is stupid.
The issue is anti-white propaganda designed to hurt white children. That is the correct name for this.
What a gaggle of German Jews called it in the 1930s is unimportant.
“Nattering over the term “critical theory” is stupid.”
Endeavoring to understand what they mean and intend is not stupid.
But knowing they are an existential enemy is enough.
We don’t know what Adorno or Horkheimer would have thought of today’s “critical race theory.” In their last years they were very pessimistic about the possibility of political change. They didn’t care for the student radicals of the Sixties and retreated more and more into abstract speculation. Marcuse, though, might be more supportive.
There was always a lot of abstract parlor speculation in the original Frankfurt School, as though they valued a good theory over anything actually done in the world. That explains why they had some popularity in the university left, but also why they weren’t exactly relevant to what activists wanted to do. There was a period in the forties when Adorno and Horkheimer advocated a reeducation program to prevent what they saw as fascism developing in America, but a short time later, the two had returned to Germany where fascism hadn’t just been a concept.