第1世代
マックス・ホルクハイマー
テオドール・アドルノ
ヴァルター・ベンヤミン
エーリヒ・フロム
ヘルベルト・マルクーゼ
フランツ・レオポルド・ノイマン
フリードリヒ・ポロック
第2世代
ユルゲン・ハーバーマス
アルフレート・シュミット
オスカー・ネークト
第3世代
アクセル・ホネット
アレックス・デミロビッチ
グンツェン・シュミット
ヨッヘン・ヘーリッシュ
ゲールハルト・シュベッポンホイザー
第4世代
ノルベルト・ボルツ（当初は第4世代とみなされていたが、後にフランクフルト学派を批判する）
脚注[脚注の使い方]^ Jamin, Jerome (February 6, 2018). “Cultural Marxism: A survey”. Religion Compass 12 (1?2): e12258. doi:10.1111/REC3.12258. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/rec3.12258. "When looking at the literature on Cultural Marxism as a piece of cultural studies, as a conspiracy described by Lind and its followers, and as arguments used by Buchanan, Breivik, and other actors within their own agendas, we see a common ground made of unquestionable facts in terms of who did what and where, and for how long at the Frankfurt School. Nowhere do we see divergence of opinion about who Max Horkheimer, Theodor Adorno, and Herbert Marcuse really were, when they have met and in which universities. But this changes if we look at descriptions of what they wanted to do: conducting research or changing deeply the culture of the West? Were they working for political science or were they engaging with a hidden political agenda? Were they working for the academic community or obeying foreign secret services?"
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