Adorno’s pseudo-conservatism doctrine smuggled a European left-wing critique of American civilization into the study.

Evidence

In Adorno’s view, political and economic conservatism was therefore a more significant indicator of fascist psychological tendencies than scores on the Eor F-scales. The conservatism of the interviewees was a defence of a genuine kind of conservatism found more often in Europe than in the United States, and Adorno therefore classified it more or less consistently as pseudo-conservatism. Since conservatives in the United States were seen as democrats and good Americans just as much as liberals were, and after 1945 even more so than liberals, Adorno’s distinction concealed a very European left-wing critique of the American way of life, of American civilization. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 445

Categorization

• XREF: Tracks the same Horkheimer-circle lineage as the book’s earlier treatments of the culture industry and monopoly capitalism. — connects to: Lazarsfeld worked to integrate European theorists like Adorno into American social research. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 263; Adorno’s pseudo-conservatism label masked a European left critique of American civilization — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1806; Adorno judged postwar European intellectual culture inferior to America’s for critical analysis. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1742 (+2 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Lazarsfeld worked to integrate European theorists like Adorno into American social research. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 263; Adorno’s pseudo-conservatism label masked a European left critique of American civilization — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1806; Adorno judged postwar European intellectual culture inferior to America’s for critical analysis. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1742 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Adorno’s pseudo-conservatism label masked a European left critique of American civilization #corroborates (0.98) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1806
• Adorno judged postwar European intellectual culture inferior to America’s for critical analysis. #complicates (0.78) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1742