Fromm’s financial independence forced Horkheimer to treat him as a theoretical equal.

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 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Fromm’s financial independence earned him equal treatment from Horkheimer. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 590; Horkheimer treated the Foundation’s money as an instrument of his own theoretical persona.

Broader Connections

• Fromm’s financial independence earned him equal treatment from Horkheimer. #corroborates (0.95) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 590
• Horkheimer treated the Foundation’s money as an instrument of his own theoretical persona. #expands (0.75)