Behind the bastards podcast did a series on him that went into his early life, I’d highly recommend it as it’s interesting to see his journey from a red diaper baby, to a Marxist theorist, to heading a surveillance-ware empire.
He was influenced by his parents’ activism for civil rights and social justice during his youth and went to many protests.[13][2] He said what he inherited from his maternal side was “a strong affinity to fighting discrimination”.
Karp initially wanted to be a social theorist.[17] He earned a bachelor’s degree in philosophy from Haverford College in Haverford, Pennsylvania, in 1989,[18] then enrolled at Stanford Law School, where he earned a J.D. in 1992.[19][20][3] While at Stanford, Karp met Peter Thiel. The two bonded over their exasperation with the law school and a passion for political debates. Thiel recalled that, “He was more the socialist, I was more the capitalist. He was always talking about Marxist theories of alienated labor and how this was true of all the people around us.”[2][7] Karp said that he felt different at “every institution I interacted with”.[2]
After his undergraduate studies and law school, Karp earned a Ph.D. in neoclassical social theory from Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany, in 2002.
And yes that is The Frankfurt school of Habermas and Adorno that the right wing claims formulated the Marxist critical theory that infected all the woke left.
Behind the bastards podcast did a series on him that went into his early life, I’d highly recommend it as it’s interesting to see his journey from a red diaper baby, to a Marxist theorist, to heading a surveillance-ware empire.
A shorter version can be found on the early life section of his Wikipedia
And yes that is The Frankfurt school of Habermas and Adorno that the right wing claims formulated the Marxist critical theory that infected all the woke left.