Fascism froze the Frankfurt School’s analysis into repulsion

Evidence

Loran Therborn has written that “understandably, fascism became a Medusa’s head for the Frankfurt School. The result was that the initial attitude of revulsion was frozen, instead of developing into a scientific analysis and participation in revolutionary political practice”; “Frankfurt Marxism: A Critique,” New Left Review, 63 (September-October, 1970), p. 94. His criticism was made from the left, but ,liberals also have pointed to the Institut’s obsession with fascism. — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 1750

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the book’s discussion of why the school never produced a systematic theory of fascism despite devoting so much energy to it. — connects to: The Frankfurt circle ignored Weimar democracy and fascism yet expected socialism — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 499; The Frankfurt School suppressed foundational questions more firmly than missing economic analysis. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2148