Ep. 1164 Cultural Marxism and the Frankfurt School
The Tom Woods Show
Tom Woods
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 23 May 2018
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Is there such a thing as "cultural Marxism"? If so, what is it? And what was the Frankfurt School, and what was it trying to accomplish? Paul Gottfried, who holds a Ph.D. in history from Yale and has written extensively on these subjects, joins me to get to the bottom of it all.
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| 0:36.1 | Hi, everybody. Tom Woods here. Is there anything to the idea of cultural Marxism? Is that a |
| 0:41.2 | valid concept? We're going to talk about that today, as well as the history of the Frankfurt |
| 0:45.2 | School. And I realize that both of these are topics that make, let's just say, fashionable |
| 0:50.4 | libertarians roll their eyes. Libertarians who are desperate for the approval of the New York Times |
| 0:55.5 | are not going to approve of this episode. But to heck with that, what's the point of having a show if all you do is play it's safe? |
| 1:02.5 | You might not agree with everything in this episode, but it's interesting analysis and very important to know about. |
| 1:07.8 | Our guest is Paul Gottfried, who holds a PhD in history from Yale. He's also |
| 1:13.8 | been a Guggenheim recipient. He is Professor Emeritus of Humanities at Elizabethtown College, |
| 1:19.2 | author of many books, including The Strange Death of Marxism, Leo Strauss and the Conservative |
| 1:25.0 | Movement in America, multiculturalism and the politics of guilt, and fascism, the career of a concept. Paul, welcome back. |
| 1:33.8 | Thank you for having me again. |
| 1:35.4 | Let's talk about, first of all, cultural Marxism as a concept. Can you accept the idea that there can't be something like cultural Marxism, given that Marxism is a materialistic economic doctrine, and cultural Marxism is something quite different? |
| 1:55.0 | So is there really a cultural Marxism? |
| 1:58.0 | I'm glad, Tom, you asked me that question since I have written entire folks on the subject. |
| 2:04.2 | No, I do not consider cultural Marxism, a form of Marxism. |
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