The Frankfurt school was made up by four main scholars Theodor W Adorno (Philosopher, Sociologist and Musicologist), Walter Benjamin (Essayist and literacy critic), Herbert Marcuse (Philosopher), and Max Horkheimer (Philosopher, Sociologist) and later Jurgen Habermas.

The Frankfurt school had many ideas; the main ideas were to critique Marxism.

The Frankfurt School where all Marxists and all believed in his theories about capitalism

However what the group of German Jewish intellectuals wanted to do was to take Marx’s ideas develop them and redefine them.

These ideas’s came to be known as “Critical Theory”

Marx’s believed that there is a class difference (Separation) between the ruling classes and the working classes, This separation creates the wage labour, Marx went onto say that means of production is controlled by the minority while the larger majority work as wage labour.

Marx says that the ruling classes are the classes that have the dominant material force and the dominant intel

I like to move on now to a concept developed by Marx was called Commodity Fetishism this explains how cultural forms are linked to the ideological domination of capital.

For example if you have two jumpers one which has no brand and one which is a well known designer brand, the one with the designer brand will have more exchange value (be worth more £40 - £5) but the use value of the jumper will be the same it just that in social circles the designer jumper is more socially acceptable.

The false consciousness is where the mass media is pressed onto he masses influencing them without them knowing.

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