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Q1: Why is this topic called a "conspiracy theory" in the title?
A1: Because that's what the reliable sources call it, and Wikipedia follows what reliable, independent, secondary sources say. See the sources listed in the footnotes in the lead of the article, for example.
Q2: Why is it labeled "far-right" and "antisemitic" in the first sentence? Doesn't that show a biased, leftist point of view?
A2: See answer #1; because that's what the reliable sources call it; see the citations for the first sentence.
Q3: Dworkin (1997) has the term in the title of his book, so the field clearly must exist.
A3: Not if he's the first one to talk about it. Dworkin said (on page 3) that "My account is the first intellectual history to study British cultural Marxism conceived as a coherent intellectual discipline". If he's the first, then either it's not a preexisting field, or no one has discovered or named it before him. Either way, that would be a different topic; this article is about the conspiracy theory dating to the 1990s.
Q4: I came here to read (or edit) about scholars who apply Marxist theory to the study of culture.
A4: Much of this is covered at a different article, Marxist cultural analysis.
Q5: Why is this labeled "antisemitic"? Plenty of people involved with the Frankfurt school were Jewish!
A5: This article is about the Cultural Marxism conspiracy theory dating to the 1990s, and the reliable sources consistently identify it as antisemitic. The Frankfurt school is a different topic, and dates back to Germany in the 1920s.