In sociology and political philosophy, the term critical theory describes the neo-Marxist philosophy of the Frankfurt School, which was developed in Germany in the 1930s. This use of the term requires proper noun capitalization, whereas "a critical theory" or "a critical social theory" may have similar elements of thought, but not stress its intellectual lineage specifically to the Frankfurt School. Frankfurt School theorists drew on the critical methods of Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud. Critical theory maintains that ideology is the principal obstacle to human liberation.

yeah you copy and pasted it

cultural marxism is a meme

it doesnt describe anything

^

it was originally a nazi propaganda idea called "cultural bolshevism"

frankfurt school books are a critique of mass media mostly

so what? its in sociology because thats what sociology is

the critique of society including mass media and so forth

(hooty probably thinks that "sociology" has to do with socialism because the names are similar)

While modernist critical theory (as described above) concerns itself with "forms of authority and injustice that accompanied the evolution of industrial and corporate capitalism as a political-economic system", postmodern critical theory politicizes social problems "by situating them in historical and cultural contexts, to implicate themselves in the process of collecting and analyzing data, and to relativize their findings". Meaning itself is seen as unstable due to the rapid transformation in social structures. As a result, the focus of research is centered on local manifestations, rather than broad generalizations.

More nihilism

what are you even copypasting from?

You are getting confused

it's not wikipedia because there's no bracketed citations

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_theory

You understand critical theory

is like

oh it is wikipedia

full of different analysis

from different authors

its not like they all just wrote the same book

"While critical theorists have been frequently defined as Marxist intellectuals, their tendency to denounce some Marxist concepts and to combine Marxian analysis with other sociological and philosophical traditions has resulted in accusations of revisionism by Classical, Orthodox, and Analytical Marxists"

>when actual marxists hate you because you reject marxism but you're still marxist

Hence neo-marxism

I mean debords society of the spectacle is just about how images define our reality

You havent read anything remotely sociological let alone frankfurt school

But you see it is an attack on meaning

Combined with postmodernism where you can change the definitions of words to mean whatever you want

Fucking jordan peterson

that idiot

Just like communists do

Post modernism has no set meaning in fact jordan peterson is post modern

With all their secret code words

My god.

That need to be deciphered

And invented words like bourgeoisie, proletariat, class consciousness, vanguard

ok let me decode them

rich, poor, those aware of the seperation between the two social classes, a group of commies trying to take over

Bourgeoisie means anybody who is living a higher quality of life than me

no