Anti-communism replaced anti-fascism as West Germany joined the Western camp

Evidence

On his return to the USA, Horkheimer considered ways of extending their German outpost' without abandoning their American outpost’. Marcuse thought that setting up a branch of their American organization in Frankfurt would allow them to establish a full professorship in Germany while retaining American citizenship. Difficulties apparently arose here because in the meantime the American military government’s re-education and reorientation programme had been largely abandoned. In June 1948 an important step towards the stabilization of West German capitalism was brought about by currency reform. In the autumn the first instalments of the Marshall Plan arrived in Germany. They were not of any decisive economic significance, but they were a further symbol of the way in which anti-communism was taking the place of anti-fascism and West Germany was being attached to the Western camp. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 426

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the Institute’s later Cold War trajectory and its members’ wartime service in US intelligence agencies. — connects to: Soviet antisemitic campaigns revived the charge that fascism equals communism — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 429; West German anti-communism criminalized leftist and persecutee organizations by decree — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 467; Anti-communism replaced anti-Semitism as the object of displaced aggression. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1812 (+1 more)
• SHARE: The detail that the 1948 Marshall Plan instalments were economically negligible but symbolically decisive is catnip for a Cold War economic history buff.
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Soviet antisemitic campaigns revived the charge that fascism equals communism — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 429; West German anti-communism criminalized leftist and persecutee organizations by decree — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 467; Anti-communism replaced anti-Semitism as the object of displaced aggression. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1812 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Soviet antisemitic campaigns revived the charge that fascism equals communism #complicates (0.72) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 429