Frankfurt theorists rejected socialism as a necessary outgrowth of capitalism.

Evidence

Marcuse also shared Horkheimer’s and Adorno’s rejection of the assumption that socialism was a necessary outgrowth of capitalism. Like them, he sounded a note of skepticism about the connection between human emancipation and the progress of technology and instrumental rationalism. — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 294

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Adorno rejected the deferral of socialism to a future state as bourgeois thinking — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1510; Organizational rupture with old socialism did not require ideological rupture too — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 95; Adorno and Horkheimer rejected all optimistic philosophies of history including Marxism. — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 800 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Adorno rejected the deferral of socialism to a future state as bourgeois thinking #corroborates (0.85) — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1510
• Organizational rupture with old socialism did not require ideological rupture too #complicates (0.72) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 95