Satire In The Frankfurt School

That the show using satire talks about ideals and theories formed by the Frankfurt School, while the majority of characters represent society and effect of mass media and mass consumption in a capitalist society. Daria and her friend Jane, however, represent people who revolt against the mass-produced ideals and in turn are ridiculed by others.
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Introduction on how the Frankfurt school was founded and also background on Marxism, as that is the basis for their theory.
The school followed the teachings of Karl Marx and were studying why capitalist societies were succeeding while communist regimes were floundering.
Karl Marx was the founder of Marxism, which is the system of economic, social, and political philosophy that views social change in
The majority of the characters are there to represent society, who are habitualized to stop thinking critically and accept the ideals given to them by the culture industry. For example Daria’s sister Quinn only ever talks about herself and always refers to her appearance, and how others will judge her on said appearence. “How will I hold my head up in the fashion club....Just because you’re (Daria) not interested in what new and attractive and popular.”
In episode one the family is eating dinner when the mom brings up Daria’s need to make friends, when Daria comments that all the people at her school are stupid her mother responds by saying “don’t be so critical”. This comment on its own would just appear to be a mother telling her daughter to be less judgemental of others; however, looking at it from a neo-marxist perspective while having Daria represent a person who is revolting from a society of non critical thinkers means that the mother is just consume and conform like everyone else.
In the same episode Brittney saying “perspective is