Dialectic of Enlightenment was republished with its anti-capitalist vocabulary softened.

Evidence

The Philosophical Fragments, with only a final thesis on anti-Semitism added, and with the anti-capitalist vocabulary softened at numerous points, were published three years later by the Amsterdam émigré publishers Querido as a proper book under the title Dialectic of Enlightenment (this had been the title of the first chapter in the mimeographed edition). … They still continued to hope, even later when they returned to the German Federal Republic, that a continuation of the work would be possible. But the discussions in October 1946 in which they tried to clarify how enlightenment was to be rescued and how a concept of correct reason was to be developed showed that they were largely at a loss. The omission of the passage in the introduction mentioned above, and the fact that a continuation of the study did not appear, made the book into something different from what its original form of publication had indicated: it became a complete fragment providing a record of the essentials of what its authors had to say. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1362

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to debates about the political meaning of Adorno and Horkheimer’s postwar work — the softening of anti-capitalist vocabulary in the 1947 book edition vs. the mimeographed 1944 version. — connects to: Dialectic of Enlightenment became more negativistic than its authors originally planned. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1341; Dialectic of Enlightenment originated as a mimeographed 1942-44 typescript stripped of anti-capitalist vocabulary. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1362; Contingent publishing disappointments shaped what the Dialectic of Enlightenment volume contained. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1361 (+1 more)
• QUESTION: Exactly which passages had anti-capitalist vocabulary softened between the two editions? A textual-comparison question worth chasing.

Broader Connections

• Dialectic of Enlightenment originated as a mimeographed 1942-44 typescript stripped of anti-capitalist vocabulary. #expands (0.90) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1362
• Contingent publishing disappointments shaped what the Dialectic of Enlightenment volume contained. #qualifies (0.75) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1361
• Conflating capitalism with Jews made anti-capitalist hostility emotionally anchorable #contradicts (0.70) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 146