What is Frankfurt School?
The '''Frankfurt School''' was a group created at the [[Institute for Social Research]] at [[Goethe University Frankfurt]] in 1929. The Frankfurt School was opposed to [[capitalism]] but didn’t support the form of [[Communism]] that [[Vladimir Lenin]] created in the [[Soviet Union]]. The Frankfurt School thought that [[Karl Marx]] got a lot right but also some things wrong so they decided to fix [[classical Marxism]] by mixing Marx’s ideas with the ideas of [[Sigmund Freud]] and [[Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel]]. The Frankfurt School thought that, instead of using [[violence]], the best way to [[fight]] [[capitalism]] was to explain how the [[culture]] it created made things worse for a lot of [[people]]. So Frankfurt School [[intellectual]]s like [[Jürgen Habermas]], [[Theodor Adorno]], [[Max Horkheimer]], [[Herbert Marcuse]] and [[Erich Fromm]] created [[Critical theory]] to do that. The people who started the Frankfurt School ran away from [[Germany]] to escape [[Adolf Hitler]] after he took over and instead came to [[Columbia University]]. The [[far-right]] has a lot of [[conspiracy theories]] about the Frankfurt School. {{Critical theory}} [[Category:Goethe University Frankfurt]] [[Category:Philosophical movements and positions]]