"Cultural Marxism", as the far-right portrays it, doesn't exist.
The critical theory of the Frankfurt School ought to be understood as a continuation of the long tradition of Jewish antinomianism, as it emphasizes a break from the ideology and norms of the existing modern order for the sake of redemption. The members of the Frankfurt School drew inspiration from the western canonical tradition, with its blend of Jewish and Pagan precepts, rather than seeking to destroy it. Their animosity towards western industrial-capitalist society and the progress myth grew out of the historical disdainful attitudes of the Gentiles towards European Jewry, culminating in a genocide characterized by hierarchical obedience and technical efficacy.
If Jew-hating conspiracy theorists really knew anything about Jewish history and the Frankfurt School, they'd bring up Walter Benjamin - may HaShem avenge his blood - and his admitted interest in the Gnostic Sabbatian-Frankist heresies - something he picked up from his good friend and theologian Gershom Scholem - which consisted of amoral transcendence of Jewish law and ethics (such as consumption of unkosher foods, ritual sodomy, feasts and orgies on Purim, et cetera), egalitarianism, and female liberationist doctrines, all in the name of tikkun and Messianic redemption. The Dönmeh (the loyal followers of Shabbatai Tzvi) publicly converted to Islam in the manner of the forced conversion of their Moshiach, all the while secretly practicing their clandestine heretical Jewish faith, replete with wife-swapping, homosexuality, and other Abrahamic no-nos. The Dönmeh, situated in Turkey, later "infiltrated" Sufi and Alevi orders, as well as the Turkish communist party, feminist and anarchist organizations, intent on subverting traditional Islamic morality and epistemology.
Critical theory follows in this wave of thought by throwing off the rigid chains and iron fists of the narratives which emerged from modernity and capitalism. Mythologies of “progress” and the gradual move towards a new Golden Age through the forces of technological development, so-called capitalist “freedoms”, and un-malleable “logic” which had engulfed the western mode of thought were, in essence, flipped in the sense that they would be interpreted as elements of social control and an ongoing historical catastrophe, leading humanity straight to a torturous fascist death. Oral Torah and kabbalistic texts are littered with references to the existing world being under the domain of evil side of God, that is, the side of God which incorporates hatred, punishment, and unholiness. God fell into duality by the act of Creation, and must be re-unified through the tikkun of the people below, whose actions will thus bring about the re-unification of God above and the return to primordial harmony. ….
In all of this, it can be stated that the intellectuals of the Frankfurt School were in no way trying to destroy culture, but were rather looking to retrieve the elements of western culture which gave off a sense of utopianism within the commodified capitalist sludge. This can be seen in the ways Benjamin utilized translation as a means of finding the lost holy sparks of God within language and literature, and also in within his motif of collecting and contrasting the artifacts of culture he encountered whilst walking into the sphere of the profane. It is also what lead Adorno to praise old school reactionary thinkers on the basis that such thought longed for a culture that was more “authentic”, and Marcuse to champion bourgeois literature as superior to the hippie aesthetics which he denounced as having little to no artistic value. They all recognized that mainstream culture had been transformed into a decaying carcass as modernity and capitalism loomed over western civilization.
Xexizy’s video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odhhG...
The Dialectical Imagination (Martin Jay): http://www.antropologias.org/files/do...
“Dialectic of Counter-Enlightenment: The Frankfurt School as a Scapegoat of the Lunatic Fringe” (Martin Jay): https://web.archive.org/web/201111240...
Jewish Cryptotheologies of Late Modernity: Philosophical Marranos (Agata Bielik-Robson): https://www.amazon.com/Jewish-Cryptot...
Fire Alarm: Reading Walter Benjamin’s ‘On The Concept of History’ (Michael Löwy): https://www.versobooks.com/books/2279...
Sabbatai Zevi (שבתי צבי, Sabetay Sevi): http://www.donmeh-west.com/sabbatai.s...
Sabbatianism: https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/...
