Adorno read state interventionism as confirming capitalism’s inevitable collapse

Evidence

The curse that society bore was blamed partly on state interventionism, which was seen as representing an indirect confirmation of the theory of the inevitable collapse of capitalism. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 661

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the Frankfurt School’s debates on organized/state capitalism, including Pollock’s state-capitalism thesis. — connects to: State intervention made capitalist exploitation political and thereby threatened capitalism itself — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism: An Intervention, 173; A crisis-free state capitalism would trap humanity in permanent hopelessness — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1171
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: State intervention made capitalist exploitation political and thereby threatened capitalism itself — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism: An Intervention, 173; A crisis-free state capitalism would trap humanity in permanent hopelessness — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1171

Broader Connections

• A crisis-free state capitalism would trap humanity in permanent hopelessness #complicates (0.85) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1171