At first I understood that Frankfurt was just liberalism with extra steps… Now I see rhat Frankfurt is just liberalism.

I had read a little in the past about how the CIA funded literary magazines (like the paris review) in order to spread western ideology globally in opposition to the ussr.

This is along the same line of thought, the us and corporate backers funding anticommunist left philosophers to focus on everything besides material analysis and class struggle. I knew a little bit about this before reading this article, but some of the specifics are really damning. The story of Walter Benjamin is heartbreaking.

"It is important to recall, in this regard, that five of the eight members of the Horkheimer circle had worked as analysts and propagandists for the U.S. government and national security state, which “had a vested interest in the continuing loyalty of the Frankfurt School because a number of its members were working on sensitive government research projects.”

I mean, bastard Herbert Marcusse worked at the Office of Strategic Services, which is a predecessor to the CIA, you have enough information with that, fuck them.