Ben Alper: Fun With Primary Sources: The Free Congress Fo...

Ben Alper: Fun With Primary Sources: The Free Congress Foundation's "History of Political Correctness": "The notion that the Frankfurt School was responsible for creating 'Political Correctness', 'Cultural Marxism', and a related plot against Western civilization itself emerged from the circle around Lyndon LaRouche from the 1970s (when LaRouche���s attacks on the Frankfurt Institute apparently began) through the early 1990s...

... Michael Minnicino���s 1992 article on the Frankfurt School and Political Correctness, published in Fidelio, the journal of LaRouche���s Schiller Institute, was particularly important. Minnicino has since renounced this article and other work he produced for LaRouche.... The supposed connections between the Frankfurt School, 'Political Correctness', 'Cultural Marxism', and a plot against Western civilization were popularized by William S. Lind through his work at Paul Weyrich���s Free Congress Foundation.... Intellectual historian���and actual Frankfurt School expert���Martin Jay puts in an appearance here. ��Lind���s surprise interview of him made him aware of this particular conspiracy theory for the first time. He has since written an article about this issue: 'Dialectic of Counter-Enlightenment: The Frankfurt School as Scapegoat of the Lunatic Fringe', Salmagundi, 169, (Fall 2010-Winter 2011). Even more influential than this video was the short book 'Political Correctness': A Short History of an Ideology, which��Lind edited for the Free Congress Foundation. ��It was apparently originally posted, free of charge, in late 2004 on the FCF���s website...

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