Abstract
Alienation of mass of fans, exploitation and commodification of professional athletes, mechanization of physicality to maximize sport performance and overall analysis of sport as an ideological tool. Through these themes, in the 1970s and 1980s, Marxist philosophers in Germany, France and Britain originally took up the previously undocumented field of sport.
Not only the historical materialism of Karl Marx, but also the critical theory of the Frankfurt School explores this specific and widely popular cultural form as a product and reflection of the capitalist production of the time. The aim of this work is to present the basic points of the critical theory of sport and to evaluate its developmental tendencies as well as the adequacy with regard to the current events in the sports field.