The Institute (Frankfurt School)

The Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt (the Frankfurt School), a Marxist-oriented intellectual institution noted for its critical theory scholarship. In these claims it refers to the Institute’s academic positions on Marx orthodoxy, bourgeois economics, the Soviet economy, and its members such as Walter Benjamin.

Claims that use this term

• The Institute rejected both Second and Third International Marx orthodoxy as coagulated dogma
• The Institute judged bourgeois economics irrelevant because it focuses on the inessential
• The Institute fully Americanized after the mid-1930s, publishing only in English
• The Institute viewed the Soviet economy as a variant of state capitalism
• The Institute pushed Benjamin toward secularism rather than theology
• The Institute abandoned class conflict in favor of man-nature domination as history’s motor