The Frankfurt School wrote their "messages in a bottle" for a different time than ours. We are not yet desperate enough to actualize the potential they saw. Yet somehow yesterday's postmodernist is now today's Frankfurt Schooler, which is supremely ironic given the original postmodernists' actual living connection to the Frankfurt School. If A&H were around today, they would undoubtedly recognize in the Disney Industrial Complex the fulfillment of Marxism, and that would be precisely their point. Until the left is as revolutionary as Disney is, it will never rise again. 'A&H,' a moniker that evidences the new reification and thus total ignorance of the Frankfurt School's Marxism (but, perhaps for that very reason, a genius neologism!), would want better from today's 'Marxists' (myself included!).
The Frankfurt School wrote their "messages in a bottle" for a different time than ours. We are not yet desperate enough to actualize the potential they saw. Yet somehow yesterday's postmodernist is now today's Frankfurt Schooler, which is supremely ironic given the original postmodernists' actual living connection to the Frankfurt School. If A&H were around today, they would undoubtedly recognize in the Disney Industrial Complex the fulfillment of Marxism, and that would be precisely their point. Until the left is as revolutionary as Disney is, it will never rise again. 'A&H,' a moniker that evidences the new reification and thus total ignorance of the Frankfurt School's Marxism (but, perhaps for that very reason, a genius neologism!), would want better from today's 'Marxists' (myself included!).