Exiled leftists in 1930s America faced a revival of Weimar-style anti-communism

Evidence

At the end of the 1930s they were experiencing in exile a situation which in some respects recalled the last years of the Weimar Republic. In the late 1930s, when the New Deal came to a standstill, the end of the Red Decade also arrived. In reaction to the years of prominence in politics, administration and the media of left-wingers, or those denounced as such, an unmistakable anti-communism appeared, increasing in strength in the wake of the Hitler-Stalin pact. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 276

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the book’s earlier chapters on the Institute’s Weimar-era politicization and the Horkheimer/Neumann split over how Marxism should respond to reaction. — connects to: American anti-communism resurged in the late 1930s, echoing Weimar’s last years. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1058
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: American anti-communism resurged in the late 1930s, echoing Weimar’s last years. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1058

Broader Connections

• American anti-communism resurged in the late 1930s, echoing Weimar’s last years. #corroborates (0.95) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1058