[Longshanks]

The Frankfurt School was relocated at Columbia in the 1930's.

Here is an excellent recent essay on Gramsciism from the Mindszenty Report. It mentions influential Gramsciite Herbert Marcuse coming to New York during the 30's. I suppose he must have been at Columbia then.

It also details how cultural marxists have sidestepped economic methods of fostering revolution to focus instead on undermining our cultural and religious institutions. Purely fiscal conserservatism is useless for fighting Gramsciites. Opposing them requires genuine cultural and religious conserservatism.

[rmlew]

Dr. Borst's peice is interesting. However, he was mistaken when he wrote:

Since economic Marxism was a failure, Gramsci reasoned that the only way to topple the repressive Western institutions was by, what he called, a “long march through the culture.”

Gramsci was disillusioned with Bolshevism, not Marxism. Gramsci created his ideological twist as a way to pursue Marxist Revolution. After the failure of the Spartacist Uprising in Germany, Bela Kun's government in Hungary, and over communist uprising, Gramsci saw the "Revolutionary Vanguard" leading the workers in direct revolt as a failure. The reality is taht the peasants and proletariate opposed the Communists. Gramsci saw religiona and traditional society as the cause of this hostility to communism. Religion was not merely the "opiate of the masses" but the basis for a worldview in opposition to Scientific Socialism.

I have read a number of articles on the subject of Cultural Marxism. The best of which is a simple speech given to college students by Bill Lind.
http://www.academia.org/lectures/lind1.html

If you want to see what Marcusism and Third-Worldism look like in an echo chamber, check out the anti-war rally held by professors at Columbia on Wednesday:
http://www.columbiaspectator.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2003/03/27/3e82ec7193097?in_archive=1