Capitalist contradictions operated at higher and more dangerous levels in Germany

Evidence

Neumann had accused the theoreticians of state capitalism of not being able to give any evidence for the decay of the system they diagnosed, and for his own part he claimed that the contradictions of capitalism were working on a higher and therefore more dangerous level in Germany than elsewhere. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1203

Categorization

• XREF: This is the state capitalism debate within the Frankfurt School — connects to Pollock’s and Neumann’s competing accounts of Nazi economics. — connects to: Germany’s Supreme Court turned Weimar’s equality rights into capitalist defenses — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 957; Marxist passivity toward ripening conditions paralyzed German socialists — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 29; Contradictions in industrial society do not resolve themselves automatically — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 877 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Command economy and monopoly capitalism coexisted under Nazi rule #expands (0.78) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 510
• Contradictions in industrial society do not resolve themselves automatically #expands (0.75) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 877
• Capitalism may lead to barbarism rather than socialism #qualifies (0.72) — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 354
• Germany and England objectified class struggle through different institutional routes #expands (0.70) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 307