The Frankfurt School

Critical Theory originated in the Institute of Social Research at Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany in 1923. It was developed as a Marxist studies program, and often referred to as the Frankfurt School. Critical Theory preaches the same old Marxist ideology about class warfare. Marx believed that society consisted “of different social classes all competing for a limited pool of resources such as food, housing, employment, education, and leisure time.” He believed that life was a zero-sum game, pitting the wealthy against the poor, a binary conflict of oppressed vs. oppressors, victims vs. victimizers. To Marx, the wealthy were the oppressors, and the poor were the oppressed. The framing all of societal problems through this lens of Marxist class struggle led to many of the Communist revolutions in the 20th century; Russia, China, Cuba, East Germany, North Korea, Vietnam, etc.