Attackers dismissed mixed Marxist and liberal arguments as incoherent rabble-rousing

Evidence

This malicious piece of rabble-rousing', which was trying to undermine German efforts towards international understanding, was floundering helplessly in the dilemma of trying to use both communist-Marxist and liberal, bourgeois constitutional arguments against the National Socialist reconstruction of the legal system’. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 254

Categorization

• SEED: Angle: the accusation that anti-fascist argument was incoherent because it combined Marxist and liberal premises — a charge still leveled at liberal-left coalitions today.
• XREF: connects to: Attacks on vulgar economism are often mistaken for critiques of Marxism itself; Neoliberals selectively attacked intellectuals they disagreed with while keeping their own expertise. — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 2166; Anti-Jameson criticism gets co-opted by anti-Marxist circles regardless of intent — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures, 54 (+3 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Attacks on vulgar economism are often mistaken for critiques of Marxism itself; Neoliberals selectively attacked intellectuals they disagreed with while keeping their own expertise. — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 2166; Anti-Jameson criticism gets co-opted by anti-Marxist circles regardless of intent — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures, 54 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Ideological logic makes the camps coherent rather than senseless #complicates (0.78) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 1027