Anti-communist witch-hunts operated through character assassination, unemployment, and impoverishment rather than arrest or execution.

Evidence

These two forms of hatred fused into an everescalating witch-hunt, which, although it did not lead to arrests, torture and death, did achieve character assassination, unemployment and impoverishment, and a poisoning of the atmosphere of political and social life. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 413

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: Precise account of how repression works without overt violence — an analytic frame worth sitting with.
• XREF: connects to: Mainstream Jewish organizations cooperated with anti-Communist witch-hunts to avoid guilt by association.; The postwar US red scare operated through character assassination and impoverishment rather than imprisonment. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1668
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Mainstream Jewish organizations cooperated with anti-Communist witch-hunts to avoid guilt by association.; The postwar US red scare operated through character assassination and impoverishment rather than imprisonment. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1668

Broader Connections

• The postwar US red scare operated through character assassination and impoverishment rather than imprisonment. #corroborates (0.98) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1668