So according to dwyer and his mates in the fash-o-sphere, the frankfurt school embarked on a dastardly plot to undermine "western" civilisation, values and morals by infiltrating the academic and cultural insitutions by waging a campaign of cultural subversion from within - "cutlural marxism" - thus bringing about the woke-apocolypse of gay marriage, feminism, civil rights and the cancelation of jim davidson.
the problem with this argument - putting aside the its inherent and utterly rank anti-semitism for a moment - is that the frankfurt school's influence on culture is somewhere between fuck all and as to close to fuck all as makes no difference .
The cultural and social upheavals of the mid 20th c onwards were shaped by a range of interelating dynamic factors. i,e in the post war west you had a better paid and better educated young working class and the the expansion of mass media technology enabling them to create their own cultural space as both active consumers, participants and prioducers - particualrly in areas like fashion and popular music. Socially libera ideas (especailly around sexuality and equliaty) gain a culutral, poltical and social space - not through some dastrardly acamdemic plots - but through indicvidual and collective action and spread of these ideas and dissenting examples - (so a gay man reads in paris or sydney hears about stonewall and is inspired to set up or seek out gay rights magazines or orgnasiations)
Post WW2 ideas about universal human rights are enshringed in the UN constitutional and feed into ongoing civil rights struggles in the US - and inspire similar movements in south aftrica and ireland. All this is accelerated by mass media and the poisibilies offerered by cheper production of pamflets, magazines, films, photogrpahy and video - and further enhnacned later by the interenet.
And this all feeds back into mass culture as novelists, filmmakers, screenwriters, playwirghts, songwriters, mucicians, poets, artists etc etc feed these ideas and altnernative narratives into wider public conciousness . The net effect is that strict centralised control of culture and "public morality" become more and more difficult and increasingly and continually contested. What we have today is a continuation of the same process.
But this is far too complex, chaotic and organic a process for some - so it must be actually all be a jewish inteleectual plot with it tentacles imbedded in the BBC, academia and even the national trust. Or alternatively its all a planned process of control by capitalists to keep us from acheving class conciosness ( wasnt this the frankfurts schools take on pop culture? and that pop songs were "cultural fordism" with internchangable parts mass produced to pacify supine consumers? - tis bollocks anyway).
Anyway the real villians in the cultural class war that has undermined christainaiy, the west and drained our natural essences isnt Adorano and Horkheimer - its Guglielmo Marconi, John Logie Baird and the likes of Little Richard, and Oscar Wilde.
