"Don't 'cha want more?"
Standard method of subversives is to first encourage and then exploit discontent.
Posted on 03/31/2021 4:52:25 AM PDT by Kaslin
Founded in 1923, the Frankfurt School, a philosophical and sociological movement with the aim of developing Marxist studies in Germany that operated out of Goethe University in Frankfurt. After the Nazi takeover in 1933, the Frankfurt School relocated to Columbia University in New York City.
The influence of the Frankfurt School has been far reaching, with Critical Theory their primary focus, which has a preoccupation for critiquing modernity and capitalist society. Unable to attract converts to communism due to capitalism’s abundant material wealth, the cultural Marxism of Critical Theory perpetuates discontent by dividing people by race, sex, and class with individuals falling into either oppressed or oppressor roles. Students of the movement became the New Left radicals of the 1960s, led by the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), and its militant offshoot, the Weather Underground. The mainspring of the movement was opposition to the Vietnam War, but they were also focused on racism, police brutality, economic injustice, authority, and the belief that America was an oppressive country that exploited other nations and its own oppressed classes.
The students of the 60s are now professors at our universities, expounding on the teachings of the Frankfurt School, disseminating these race, class, and sex theories throughout academia. Now these theories are being pushed heavily into the workforce. Small and midsized companies often times not having Human Resources (HR) departments, focus on hiring the best qualified person for a job while larger companies with expansive HR departments heavily push identity politics agendas. It is commonplace for HR staff to have educational backgrounds heavily weighted in the social sciences, which are deeply indoctrinated in leftist ideology biases.
A centerpiece of leftist ideology that defines the oppressed victim of society vs. the privileged oppressor is intersectionality.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
"Don't 'cha want more?"
Standard method of subversives is to first encourage and then exploit discontent.
“Unable to attract converts to communism due to capitalism’s abundant material wealth, the cultural Marxism of Critical Theory perpetuates discontent by dividing people by race, sex, and class with individuals falling into either oppressed or oppressor roles.”
Just like in regular Marxism, these are not neutral principles. Brown=victim, white=oppressor. Period. That’s because the whole thing is a means for the people who made up the Frankfurt School (and a large number of their successors) to inflict damage on people they hate. That most or many will see them as largely being white is not a variable that they considered. It doesn’t seem to slow them down much.
The author introduces CBT but doesn't explain why he is doing so. He merely introduces it and shows how it differs from what is pushed by the Frankfort School.
I would add the conclusion that CBT is the opposite of the theories of the Frankfort School.
CBT is about "identifying and removing negative, irrational thinking" in a person's behavior.
The Frankfort School (and Marxism) is exactly the opposite, teaching its followers to "adopt negative (i.e., victim) thinking."
I find it an interesting article, especially given how large a proportion of therapists seems to be liberal.
I agreed with this piece up until he started on MLK. Why do conservatives always adopt liberal saints? You don’t ever see a leftist saying anything nice about any famous conservative. MLK was a plagiarist and wife-beater.
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