Financial insecurity overrides principled refusals of corporate patronage.

Evidence

When a well-meaning friend of the Institute tried to negotiate a contract for it with the chemical company Hoechst in 1950, Horkheimer had declined indignantly. In 1954when Pollock, who continued to be the Institute’s administrative officer up to the mid-1950s, had once again portrayed the Institute as facing imminent closureHorkheimer accepted a similar offer. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 505

Categorization

• XREF: Pays off the standing critique the Institute directed at other émigrés’ compromised independence, per the preceding paragraph — the directors’ own conduct repeats what they condemned. — connects to: Refusing patronage positions is what keeps an unpaid adviser independent — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the…, 606; Refusal requires social and financial margin most people lack — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the…, 299
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Refusing patronage positions is what keeps an unpaid adviser independent — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the…, 606; Refusal requires social and financial margin most people lack — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the…, 299

Broader Connections

• Refusing patronage positions is what keeps an unpaid adviser independent #complicates (0.82) — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker, 606