The Infiltration of Marxism Into Higher Education (Part 2 of 2)

The prospects for influence were so far-reaching that de Toledano described the naive United States as ‘a cow mooing to be milked.’

In Part I, we investigated the history of leftist philosophy, growing out of the Age of Reason or the Enlightenment, through the mid-19th century explosion of leftist political thought in Europe from Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. From these beginnings stemmed the socialist–Marxist Fabian Society in Great Britain, with its goal of destroying capitalism and infiltrating Western institutions by stealth.

Even more pernicious than the Fabians was the Frankfurt School. It was founded in 1923 at the Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany, under the innocuous name “The Institute for Social Research” (Institut für Sozialforschung). Its aim was the development of Marxist studies in Germany.