American authoritarianism manifested as cultural conformism rather than terror

Evidence

With the shift in subject matter came a subtle change in the center of the Institut’s work. Authoritarianism in America appeared in different guises from its European counterparts. Instead of terror or coercion, more gentle forms of enforced conformism had been developed. Perhaps the most effective of these were to be found in the cultural field. American mass culture thus became one of the central concerns of the Frankfurt School in the forties. — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 531

Categorization

• XREF: Sets up the affirmative-culture analysis connected to Horkheimer and the Adorno/Benjamin chapter to follow. — connects to: Authoritarianism is a learned ideology, not a personality pathology; Authoritarianism and social dominance are ideologies, not psychopathologies — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 1602

Broader Connections

• Authoritarianism is a learned ideology, not a personality pathology #corroborates (0.85)
• Authoritarianism and social dominance are ideologies, not psychopathologies #corroborates (0.85) — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 1602