Could it be that which is called "Socialism" here on TOL is Frankfurt School Transformational Marxism?
You would think that the horrible outcomes of Nazi German versus the Russian Marxist Soviet totalitarian ideologies in conflict during World War II would show nations and peoples to avoid falling under totalitarian ideologies in the future.
But no, by the time of the Counterculture of the sixties and seventies in the U.S. when it was shown that the mass followers of a new revised form of Marxism were the university students and professors, it should have been clear that the World War II lesson was not learned.
"When Outcomes Fail, Just Change the Theory"
The Death of the West" By Patrick J. Buchanan
http://www.enterstageright.com/archive/articles/0102/0102frankfortschool.htm
"The Frankfort School would patent the familiar "Critical Theory" which was accurately defined by a student as the "essentially destructive criticism of all the main elements of Western culture, including Christianity, capitalism, authority, the family, patriarchy, hierarchy, morality, tradition, sexual restraint, loyalty, patriotism, nationalism, heredity, ethnocentrism, convention, and conservatism." Under Critical Theory, anything emanating from the west is to be libeled and attacked over and over again while at the same time, anything emerging from a "progressive" country or group is to be applauded including the murder of over 100 million people. All blame for societal and economic ills are to be shifted to the west."
Transformational Marxism acknowledged that the dominant Culture in the West had to be changed before a Marxist collectivist culture and totalitarian government could be created. The Transformattonal Marxists first made use of Freud's theories as a basis for their work of changing the Culture in the West. Later, when the Frankfurt School Transformational Marxists settled in the major universities in the United States, they began to make use of American Personality and Social Psychology. And so Transformational Marxism became "psychologized." It's theories and ideology about Anti-Semitism became a psychologized theory of Anti-Semitism.
From their interest in Anti-Semitism the Frankfurt School shrinks cooked up an attack upon the Christian and Family based Culture of the West which came to be called Political Correctness and Identity Politics.
The ideas of Social Psychologists, Personality Theorists and Clinical Psychologists like Kurt Lewin, Abraham H. Maslow, and Carl R. Rogers, from more mainstream psychology, contributed to the work of changing the culture. And, in addition, the Frankfurt School had its own psychologists and psychiatrists, who were influenced by psychoanalysis, such as Eric Fromm, and Wilhelm Reich.
