Social Engineers Who Helped Change the Culture Following the Frankfurt School

Bernard Pyron

Theodore Wiesengrund Adorno's, name is on the 1950 book. The Authoritarian Personality - which used the F Scale and the E Scale.  Adorno's father was Oscar Alexander Wiesengrund, a Jew.   His mother was Maria Calvelli-Adorno della Piana, a Catholic from Corsica and a singer. 

​Theodore W. Adorno


The second Social Engineer who was an original member of the Frankfurt School is  Herbert Marcuse.  Adorno was associated with Berkeley while  Marcuse was at Brandeis, where Maslow was stationed. A.H. Maslow was another Social Engineer along with Carl Rogers.  Marcuse  wrote Eros and Civilization and was one of the fathers of the sex lib movement of  the Counterculture. 

​Herbert Marcuse

Benjamin Bloom, an educational psychologist who wrote, with some others, two books on Educational Goal taxonomies, is the next social engineer.. All public school teachers must be certified by their knowledge of the doctrines contained in Bloom's Educational Goal Taxonomies.DeanGotcher quotes Bloom as saying "“We recognize the point of view that
truth and knowledge are only relative and that there are no hard and
fast truths which exist for all time and places.” (Benjamin Bloom, et
al., Taxonomy of Educational Objectives, Book 1, Cognitive Domain)

"In the eyes of the dialectical philosophy, nothing is established for
all time, nothing is absolute or sacred." (Karl Marx)

Bloom says "Members of the taxonomy group spent considerable time in
attempting to find a psychological theory which would provide a sound
basis for ordering the categories of the taxonomy. …consistent with
relevant and accepted psychological principles and theories.”
(Benjamin Bloom, et al., Taxonomy of Educational Objectives, Book 1,
Cognitive Domain)

And  Gotcher found a footnote in Bloom's Affective Domain book, on
page 166, where Bloom acknowledges the influence of Theodore W. Adorno
and Eric Fromm on the psychological theory, philosophy or ideology
contained in his two volumes, Educational Goal taxonomies.  Book II
Affective Domain  p. 166.

“1. Cf. Erich Fromm, 1941; T. W. Adorno et al., 1950”  Benjamin Bloom,
Book II  Affective Domain  p. 166.  This is Bloom's footnote
acknowledging the influence on his thinking from Erich Fromm and
Theodore W. Adorno.  Adorno was an original Frankfurter Marxist who
posed as a personality and social psychologist in writing his 1950
book, The Authoritarian Personality, in which he claimed that the
authoritarian personality and fascism are caused by the family and
Christianity.  Erich Fromm was a Transformational Marxist psychologist
and close associate of the Frankfurters.

Bloom writes that "The affective domain is, in retrospect, a virtual
‘Pandora’s Box.  It is in this ‘box’ that the most influential
controls are to be found. The affective domain contains the forces
that determine the nature of an individual’s life and ultimately the
life of an entire people”
Bloom's second book on Educational Goal  Taxonomies focused upon the affective domain.
Benjamin S. Bloom was an important Transformational Marxist change
agent who had a great influence on the American educational system
after the fifties and sixties because he wrote the books by which all
teachers in the U.S.. are certified.

​Benjamin Bloom
Carl R, Rogers was an upper middle class guy from Oak Park of Chicago who had intended to become a Christian  minister and attended Union Theological Seminary for a while.
How did a upper middle class guy from Oak Park, who wanted to become a Christian minister, become a Social Engineer for Transformational Marxism?   That is something that Dean Gotcher discovered, studied and talks about, but may not explain how it happened.

 I think the Trail of how Rogers became a Social Engineer, that Gotcher got on became "hot," after Rogers left Wisconsin, and became a facilitator and leader in the Encounter Group Movement of the sixties and seventies. Ol Gotcher was like a hound who Coyote Hunters used to turn loose to sniff out and locate the trail and eventually jump the coyote. Maybe Gotcher on the trail of Rogers was never joined by the large pack of "hounds" and Gotcher remained sort of a lone hound who discovered Rogers trail into collectivism. That is, as far as I know, no researcher has gone into details on how and why Carl Rogers got into collectivism in the Encounter Group Movement.
I knew Carl Rogers and was once his Research Assistant and later after I finished graduate school. at Wisconsin I worked on his Schizophrenic Project for a few months.  I also took a seminar under Rogers and he was on my Ph.D. Committee.  That seminar was held in the basement of his house on Squaw Bay on Lake Monona in Madison.  It was an informal class.  I remember talking to Rogers once about Frank Lloyd Wright, who had his office in Oak Park, Illinois where Carl Rogers was from.  Rogers told me he knew Frank Lloyd Wright's sons.  Rogers had prepared to become a Christian minister - before he went off to New York City to study at the Union Theological  Seminary, New York City. After two years he left the seminary and got his Masters (1928) and Ph.D. (1931) degrees from Columbia University’s Teachers College in psychology.

​Carl R. Rogers
Abraham H. Maslow was another well known American psychologist who became a social engineer.  Maslow got his Ph.D. at Wisconsin under Harry Harlow, the monkey researcher, and under Harlow Maslow learned the experimental psychology and behaviorist. view. 
Yet Maslow became a social engineer whose work to some extent helped to abolish the older culture supporting Christianity and the family.  Betty Friedan in The Feminine Mystique, was influenced by Abraham Maslow's theory of self-actualisation. In his earlier years Maslow did research on female dominance and sexuality.
As William Coulson, the Encounter Group Faciilitor under  Carl Rogers in California said, Maslow  hung out with the Frankfurters - that is,  Maslow was a friend of Herbert Marcuse at Brandeis University and had met Erich Fromm in 1936.  Maslow studied Fromm's Frankfurt School ideology. and wrote an article, "The Authoritarian Character Structure", published in 1944, that followed the ideological line of  Frankfurt School "Critical Theory."

​Abraham H. Maslow
The Encounter Group Movement drew ideas from the experimental research in the social psychology of the Group Dynamics Movement led by Kurt Lewin, which Rogers knew about. In fact. my major professor Jack C. Gilchrist, did research in the fifties at Wisconsin on Group Dynamics and founded the Group Behavior Lab, where I was a grad student.

The Group Dynamics movement started in this country by
Kurt Lewin, set the stage for the use of the Marxist and atheistic version of the Hegelian dialectic to be developed into and attitude change procedure.

Kurt Lewin created the Research Center for Group Dynamics at the Institute of Technology in Massachusetts (MIT) in 1944.

http://www.crossroad.to/Quotes/brainwashing/kurt-lewin-change.htm

"The Dialectical Process:

The intentional process of radical social change demands continual tension or crisis. These may be spontaneous or manufactured. This book helped lay the foundation for the psycho-social strategies that have transformed education and culture around the world. Based on the research begun at Tavistock (England), continued at the Frankfurt Institute (Germany) then moved to MIT, Columbia University, Stanford and various tax-funded "Educational Laboratories" after World War II, it established the strategies for brainwashing that now permeate our schools, media and organizations. See Brainwashing in America."

“The individual accepts the new system of values and beliefs by
accepting belongingness to the group.” Kurt Lewin in Kenneth Benne
Human Relations in Curriculum Change

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/kathyschiffer/2012/04/william-coulson-and-the-lcwr-we-overcame-their-traditions-and-their-faith/
Under Kurt Lewin, the Group Dynamics social psychologists did experimental research on small group behavior.  J.C. Gilchrist at Wisconsin named his social-personality psychology lab the "Group Behavior Lab," where I did experiments though not on small group behavior.
The Group Dynamics movement, as well as the later Encounter Group Movement helped to bring interest to a new American Collectivism in the study of group behavior and ways of creating cohesive groups to change individuals into collectivists.

​Kurt Lewin

Remember that Dean Gotcher  found a footnote in Bloom's Affective Domain book, on
page 166, where Bloom acknowledges the influence of Theodore W. Adorno and Eric Fromm on the psychological theory, philosophy or ideology contained in his two volumes, Educational Goal taxonomies.  Book II Affective Domain  p. 166.

“1. Cf. Erich Fromm, 1941; T. W. Adorno et al., 1950”  Benjamin Bloom,
Book II  Affective Domain  p. 166.  This is Bloom's footnote
acknowledging the influence on his thinking from Erich Fromm and
Theodore W. Adorno.  Erich Fromm was a Transformational Marxist psychologist
and close associate of the Frankfurters, who helped to promote the Transformational Marxism of the Frankfurt School as a well known psychologist in the U.S.

​Eric Fromm