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Often overlooked is the Frankfurt School’s central role, alongside French postmodernists, in forging Critical Theory and exporting it to America, where it evolved into one of the most influential (destructive) ideologies of our time. The Institute for Social Research was founded in Frankfurt in 1923 as an avowedly Marxist institution. When the European working class refused to fulfill Marx’s prophecy of revolution, Max Horkheimer and his colleagues changed course. They developed Critical Theory: not a tool for economic reform, but a sophisticated intellectual weapon designed to dismantle Western culture, the family, traditional authority, and the very concepts of objective reason and truth. Driven into exile by the Nazis, the Frankfurt School relocated to Columbia University in the United States. There, its ideas took root in academia and spread outward. This framework provided the direct intellectual foundation for Critical Race Theory. CRT simply replaced class with race while retaining the same core premises: society is a zero-sum power struggle between oppressors and oppressed, objective truth is a myth deployed by the powerful, and Western institutions are inherently racist by design. The consequences surround us: classrooms saturated in racial grievance, corporations imposing divisive DEI mandates, and a culture that has abandoned merit, colorblindness, and individual responsibility in favor of equity, identity politics, and inherited guilt. The Frankfurt School never aimed to improve the West. It trained generations in the art of deconstructing and ultimately destroying it. The antidote is to reclaim truth, merit, reason, and the foundational values of Western civilization. The “long march through the institutions” began here. It is time to march back.

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