Comments on: Frankfurt on the Hudson http://www.conspiracyarchive.com/Blog/?p=2824 Anti-Theory Conspiracy Fri, 24 May 2013 06:24:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Freeborn http://www.conspiracyarchive.com/Blog/?p=2824#comment-9283 Freeborn Tue, 08 Sep 2009 20:39:50 +0000 http://www.conspiracyarchive.com/Blog/?p=2824#comment-9283 Interesting review of a book on an interesting topic.The finance and power- play behind the spread of Frankfurt School ideas to the US might mirror the earlier spread of Marx's ideas long after his death in England with the advocacy provided by Engels and leading Fabians. It is widely theorised in conspiracy circles and the Larouche group that Marx's intellectual output was carefully channnelled by Illuminati circles and Palmerston's British intelligence network. Likewise in right-wing conspiracy theory today the Frankfurt School is something of a bete-noir.Adorno,Horkheimer et al are blamed for undermining Anglo-Saxon culture with Marxist and p-c ideas. Might the same Illuminist circles have been instrumental in the dissemination of Critical theory? It's not beyond the bounds of possibility but whether the idea is even entertained in Wheatland's account is not vouchsafed in the Tablet review. For conspiracists this would make the book a little superficial. Nevertheless it's encouraging that the study of ideas has moved on from engaging solely with their ideological purity to the vitally important issues around their provenance and dissemination. Interesting review of a book on an interesting topic.The finance and power- play behind the spread of Frankfurt School ideas to the US might mirror the earlier spread of Marx’s ideas long after his death in England with the advocacy provided by Engels and leading Fabians.

It is widely theorised in conspiracy circles and the Larouche group that Marx’s intellectual output was carefully channnelled by Illuminati circles and Palmerston’s British intelligence network.

Likewise in right-wing conspiracy theory today the Frankfurt School is something of a bete-noir.Adorno,Horkheimer et al are blamed for undermining Anglo-Saxon culture with Marxist and p-c ideas.

Might the same Illuminist circles have been instrumental in the dissemination of Critical theory?

It’s not beyond the bounds of possibility but whether the idea is even entertained in Wheatland’s account is not vouchsafed in the Tablet review.

For conspiracists this would make the book a little superficial.

Nevertheless it’s encouraging that the study of ideas has moved on from engaging solely with their ideological purity to the vitally important issues around their provenance and dissemination.

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