Bloch supported the Moscow show trials as defending socialism

Evidence

In addition, Adorno was certainly still afraid of contact with the `communist’ Bloch. Bloch had been a Stalinist, and had supported the Moscow show trials as being measures necessary for the defence of the world’s only socialist country, which was under threat. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 610

Categorization

• XREF: Cross-links to the school’s broader Stalinism debates and Adorno’s anxiety about communist associations. — connects to: Bloch stood outside the positivist dispute as a ‘Marxist Schelling’ — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 610; Adorno and Horkheimer suppressed Soviet criticism to preserve Moscow-aligned discipline in 1936.
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Bloch stood outside the positivist dispute as a ‘Marxist Schelling’ — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 610; Adorno and Horkheimer suppressed Soviet criticism to preserve Moscow-aligned discipline in 1936.