Fromm’s financial independence earned him equal treatment from Horkheimer.

Evidence

Although, by his own account, he was a loner, and his psychoanalytic practice would have enabled him to live independently of the Institute at any time in the United States, obsessed with psychoanalysis as it was, he set great store by his collaboration with Horkheimer. Horkheimer, for his part, realized that Fromm was independent of him, and treated him as an intellectual equal, with equal rights, because of his importance for the theoretical and empirical work of the Institute. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 590

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the pattern in diamond bourse/champagne fair trading: independence from a patron’s power changes bargaining position within a hierarchy. — connects to: Horkheimer secured ample funding for rebuilding the Frankfurt Institute — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1861

Broader Connections

• Horkheimer secured ample funding for rebuilding the Frankfurt Institute #expands (0.75) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1861