Expecting German revolution in response to Nazism is why Marxism anchored Institute thought.

Evidence

Already near the end of the twenties, certainly by the beginning of the thirties, we were convinced of the probability of a National Socialist victory, as well as of the fact that it could be met only through revolutionary actions. That it needed a world war we did not yet envisage at that time. We thought of an uprising in our own country and because of that, Marxism won its decisive meaning for our thought. After our emigration to America via Geneva, the Marxist interpretation of social events remained, to be sure, dominant, which did not mean in any way, however, that a dogmatic materialism had become the decisive theme of our position. — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 68

Categorization

• XREF: Explains the non-dogmatic Marxism noted across much Frankfurt School secondary literature and connects to the later USC/Columbia empirical turn chapters. — connects to: The Bolshevik Revolution’s success drove German left intellectuals toward reexamining Marxist theory’s foundations — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 90; The Institute’s turn to Marxism was driven by the anticipated Nazi victory in Germany. — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 68; Unexpected ideology intrudes to derail Marxism’s predicted historical inevitability — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 382 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• The Institute’s turn to Marxism was driven by the anticipated Nazi victory in Germany. #corroborates (0.93) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 68
• Unexpected ideology intrudes to derail Marxism’s predicted historical inevitability #complicates (0.78) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 382
• Hitler was prepared to ally with communists to destroy the bourgeois West #expands (0.72)