Bucknell University professor Alexander Riley was alerted by a student that Wikipedia plays a deceptive game with regard to the topic of cultural marxism. In this Minding the Campus article, he makes it plain that it is not to be trusted.
The person who edits the Wikipedia page on cultural marxism is one Joan Braune. Riley writes:
Joan Braune apparently teaches in the “School of Leadership Studies” at Gonzaga University and works in the field of “Critical Hate Studies.” Braune has a PhD in philosophy from the University of Kentucky, her webpage at Gonzaga informs us.
More importantly, her webpage and the Wikipedia article notes both inform us, she has written a good deal on Erich Fromm, one of the prominent figures in the cultural Marxist Frankfurt School. This group were among the thinkers widely read and cited by the folks I knew on the far Left back in my grad school days, the people who openly admitted their influence by those they called cultural Marxists and their desire to see American society revolutionized. Braune unselfconsciously avows that she “works in Frankfurt School Critical Theory.”
So the person Wikipedia cites to back up the claim that cultural Marxism does not exist as a real phenomenon has written on one of the primary figures in cultural Marxism, as a partisan to his political cause. And she straightforwardly admits she is a “critical theorist” in the Frankfurt School tradition.
Nice detective work, Professor Riley.
Don’t trust Wikipedia on any politically sensitive subject.