When detailing the origins of the culture wars the British conservative politician Michael Gove refers to the establishment of the Frankfurt School in Germany during the 1920s by a number of Marxist academics. In addition to being dissatisfied with communism these intellectuals realised such was the prosperity and freedom experienced by those living in the West there was little, if any, chance of the disaffected storming the barricades and taking control.
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