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When [[File:Hitler.png]] [[Nazism|Hitler]] came to power the Frankfurt School was put in exile. 16 years later, the Frankfurt School would come back and the institute moved to Geneva (in [[File:Cball-Switzerland.png|link=https://polcompball.fandom.com/wiki/File:Cball-Switzerland.png]] Switzerland). The Frankfurt school perspective is based upon [[File:Ormarxf.png]] [[Marxism|Marxist]], [[File:Freud.png]] Freudian and [[File:Hegel.png]] Hegelian premises of Idealism. To fill the omissions of 19th-century classical [[File:Ormarxf.png]] [[Marxism]], which did not address 20th-century social problems, they applied the methods of antipositivist sociology, of psychoanalysis, and of existentialism. While some theorists of the institute remained in the [[File:Cball-US.png]] USA, the Frankfurt School was re-established in [[File:Cball-Germany.png]] West Germany, Frankfurt.

 

==Critical theory==

 

Unlike Orthodox Marxism, which applies a template to critique and to action, critical theory is self-critical, with no claim to the universality of absolute truth. As such, it does not grant primacy to matter (materialism) or consciousness (idealism), because each epistemology distorts the reality under study to the benefit of a small group. In practice, critical theory is outside the philosophical strictures of traditional theory; however, as a way of thinking and of recovering humanity's self-knowledge, critical theory draws investigational resources and methods from [[File:Ormarxf.png]] [[Marxism]].