Franz Neumann held that politics grew increasingly independent of economic power after 1945.

Evidence

Nine years later, when Neumann stated in his essay, Approaches to the Study of Political Power', that politics was becoming more independent of economic power in developed industrial society, it sounded as if he was explicitly agreeing with Pollock's rather blunt position, to which Horkheimer had given more sophistication. Under certain conditions, this independence could be extended into a supremacy of politics’: The Soviet Union presents a clear-cut marginal case where political power not only has made itself supreme but has become the fount of whatever economic power positions exist. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1197

Categorization

• XREF: Links to the ongoing Frankfurt School debate among Pollock, Neumann, and Horkheimer tracked through this book — this is the doctrinal pivot between state capitalism and Behemoth. — connects to: Nazi political power emancipated itself from big-business control to the point of autonomy. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1198

Broader Connections

• Nazi political power emancipated itself from big-business control to the point of autonomy. #corroborates (0.85) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1198