The Cultural Marxism Conspiracy feat. A.J.A. Woods (E378)

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Julian Feeld, Travis View & Jake Rockatansky

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🗓️ 25 June 2026

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Travis and Annie are joined by intellectual historian A.J.A. Woods to discuss their new book The Cultural Marxism Conspiracy: Why the Right Blames the Frankfurt School for the Decline of the West. Woods traces how a group of German critical theorists associated with the Frankfurt School were transformed in the right-wing imagination into the secret architects of everything reactionaries hate about modern life, including feminism, multiculturalism, LGBTQ rights, “political correctness,” Critical Race Theory, and “wokeness.” A.J. documents how paranoia about the Frankfurt School travelled from Lyndon LaRouche’s conspiracist ecosystem, through the Free Congress Foundation and the 1990s panic over political correctness, into the Tea Party, Gamergate, anti-woke politics, and contemporary right-wing movements in the US, UK, and Brazil. The Cultural Marxism Conspiracy: Why the Right Blames the Frankfurt School for the Decline of the West https://www.versobooks.com/products/3239-the-cultural-marxism-conspiracy A.J.A. Woods https://x.com/adubwoods A*CR Brighton https://www.instagram.com/ACRBrighton/ Cursed Media: https://www.instagram.com/cursedmediadotnet/ https://www.cursedmedia.net/ Subscribe for $5 a month to get all the premium episodes: https://www.patreon.com/qaa Produced by Liv Agar & Corey Klotz. Theme by Nick Sena. Additional music by Pontus Berghe. Theme Vocals by THEY/LIVE (https://instagram.com/theyylivve / https://sptfy.com/QrDm ). Cover Art by Pedro Correa: (https://pedrocorrea.com ) https://qaapodcast.com QAA was known as the QAnon Anonymous podcast.

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0:00.0	I'm
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0:08.0	Oh, If you're hearing this, well done, you found a way to connect to the Internet.
0:36.6	Welcome to the QAA podcast, episode 378,
0:40.3	the cultural Marxism conspiracy featuring AJA Woods. As always, we're your host, Travis View.
0:46.5	And Danny Kelly. Father's Day was this past weekend, and that's why on Friday I traveled down
0:51.7	to the city of Oceanside, California to spend some time
0:54.6	with my in-laws. When I was walking and driving around there, I was struck by how much it had
0:59.0	changed since I was a teenager. It used to be this working class and military town that was the
1:04.5	cheapest place in San Diego County to have a beach day. Now there's a lot more upscale housing,
1:09.5	fine dining restaurants, museums, and galleries,
1:12.2	and maybe it's for the best. I really don't know enough to say, but that's not the point. The point
1:17.0	is that it made me a little uncomfortable that my understanding of the city acquired from decades
1:21.9	ago doesn't match what I was seeing in 26. Now, I assume there are some complex, economic, and policy reasons for the changes, and of course, things always change, and remembering how things were different, it's just a byproduct of living long enough. But during his time, I was also reading and thinking about the new book, The Cultural Marxism Conspiracy, Why the Wright Blames the Frankfurt School for the decline of the West by AJA. Woods.
1:45.2	And that led me to consider another possibility. Perhaps the changes to the city were not caused
1:49.4	by a combination of the priorities of the local residents and capitalist incentives. Perhaps
1:54.2	Oceanside had changed as part of a decade's long plot dreamed up by people who hated that I was
1:58.8	once able to fill up on fish tacos for pocket change,
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