Does Zubatov misunderstand Marcuse, and the Frankfurt School more broadly? Maybe you are right that he does. But even if he does – that's a long way off being

Does Zubatov misunderstand Marcuse, and the Frankfurt School more broadly? Maybe you are right that he does. But even if he does – that's a long way off being a "far-right antisemitic conspiracy theory". People, on both left and right, misread history (and especially intellectual history) all the time. Just because someone's got their history wrong, doesn't make them a "conspiracy theorist", much less a "far-right antisemitic" one. > and critically he's missing their loosely socially-conservative leanings - something that scholars seem to broadly agree on, and a key reason to dismiss purported links between the School and what often passes today as "radical" or sometimes as "socially progressive" thought I don't think that necessarily follows. Coming back to what I said about Foucault – on the one hand, it is true that attempts to blame Foucault for "wokeness" tend to greatly oversimplify him. On the other hand, I don't think the right has any monopoly on misreading him – I think a lot of people on the left are guilty of reading him in overly simplistic ways, and if one was to claim that some of the excesses of contemporary progressivism have their (partial) origin in left-leaning misreadings of Foucault–that doesn't seem so implausible to me. But if that might be true of Foucault, might not it also be true of Marcuse and the Frankfurt School?