Adorno got Pollock to disguise praise for democratic state capitalism as open questions.

Evidence

But he had softened his praise for the latter, on Adorno’s suggestion that this praise should be disguised in the form of questions and problems to be addressed by future research. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 305

Categorization

• XREF: Illustrates the Institute’s rhetorical self-protection the reader tracked earlier — Marxist vocabulary censored for American funders, here doctrinal enthusiasm softened for political discretion. — connects to: Disagreement with Pollock forced Adorno to retain economic critique — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 586; Adorno’s diagnosis of Kafka leads him to reject Pollock’s state capitalism — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 584; Adorno condemned Pollock’s state capitalism thesis as undialectical and complacent. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1163
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Disagreement with Pollock forced Adorno to retain economic critique — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 586; Adorno’s diagnosis of Kafka leads him to reject Pollock’s state capitalism — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 584; Adorno condemned Pollock’s state capitalism thesis as undialectical and complacent. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1163