German sociologists accused each other of fascist and communist totalitarian leanings.

Evidence

Their `differences in views’ involved nothing less than mutual accusations of having totalitarian tendencies. Even before the Tübingen workshop, this had once again become clear at the Fourteenth German Sociology Conference in Berlin in 1959. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 595

Categorization

• SEED: Article angle: how postwar West German sociology’s ‘value-free’ methodology masked a continuation of the earlier fight over the Nazi past.
• DEFINE: The notorious mutual totalitarian accusations crystallized the positivist dispute as a political rather than purely epistemological quarrel.
• XREF: connects to: German postwar sociologists accused each other of totalitarian tendencies; Frankfurt theorists and pure sociologists accused each other of totalitarian tendencies. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2403; Neoliberals lumped communism, fascism, and social democracy together as one collectivist totalitarianism. — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market: Human Rights…, 71 (+1 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: German postwar sociologists accused each other of totalitarian tendencies; Frankfurt theorists and pure sociologists accused each other of totalitarian tendencies. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2403; Neoliberals lumped communism, fascism, and social democracy together as one collectivist totalitarianism. — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market: Human Rights…, 71 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

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