A committed minority could have rallied the left if leadership had been competent

Evidence

In view of this we are left with an ambiguous picture: on the one hand, the actual strength of the left-wing parties appears to have been much less than one might have supposed at first glance, if one looked at the numbers. On the other hand, there was nevertheless a hard core of highly reliable fighters which should have been large enough to pull the less militant along in certain circumstances, i.e. if a capable leadership and correct evaluation of the political position had been at hand. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 193

Categorization

• QUESTION: What did the Institute conclude about whether a capable leadership actually existed in Weimar? Worth chasing in later chapters.
• XREF: connects to: Stable leadership is needed to keep hegemony in progressive rather than privileged hands; The left’s defeat may have been a slow disintegration rather than a battle — Perry Anderson, The Origins of Postmodernity, 276; The Right’s rise depends structurally on the Left’s failure in power. (+4 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Stable leadership is needed to keep hegemony in progressive rather than privileged hands; The left’s defeat may have been a slow disintegration rather than a battle — Perry Anderson, The Origins of Postmodernity, 276; The Right’s rise depends structurally on the Left’s failure in power. (+4 more)