Fear of strengthening anti-democratic forces made Adorno abandon a public critique.
Evidence
Marx wrote his critique of the SPD’s Gotha Programme in 1875. Adorno had for some time planned to write a critique of the Godesberg Programme, and to get it published in the Kursbuch edited by Hans Magnus Enzensberger, who was enthusiastic about the idea. A fear of providing grist to the mill of `those undermining democracy, which has been seriously shaken’, made Adorno shy away before the plan could be carried through, however. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 632
Categorization
- XREF: Echoes the Frankfurt School’s repeated pattern of self-censoring marxist vocabulary for political or funding reasons. — connects to: Adorno suppressed criticism of the Soviet Union to protect it from Western attack. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 182; Adorno shelved his Godesberg critique fearing it would aid democracy’s enemies — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2523; Political caution made Adorno abandon his planned critique of the Godesberg Programme. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2523
- QUESTION: What would a revanchist Marx-style critique of the Godesberg Programme have said about the SPD’s liberal turn?
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Adorno suppressed criticism of the Soviet Union to protect it from Western attack. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 182; Adorno shelved his Godesberg critique fearing it would aid democracy’s enemies — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2523; Political caution made Adorno abandon his planned critique of the Godesberg Programme. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2523
Broader Connections
- Adorno shelved his Godesberg critique fearing it would aid democracy’s enemies
#expands(0.97) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2523 - Political caution made Adorno abandon his planned critique of the Godesberg Programme.
#expands(0.95) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2523