Horkheimer’s millionaire background shielded his social criticism from accusations of resentment

Evidence

His primary concern was still indignation about social injustice, about the contrast between wealth and poverty. Horkheimer was here able to draw on his own experience as the son of a millionaire, which protected him from any suspicion that he was merely harbouring resentment. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 185

Categorization

• XREF: Consonant with Gramscian/Marxist debates about who is entitled to critique ruling-class injustice — connects to standpoint and credibility arguments in critical theory. — connects to: Horkheimer’s relationship with a working-class woman expressed symbolic solidarity with the underprivileged; Horkheimer treated the well-off sensitive minority as those who grasp systemic social evil; Horkheimer’s social critique grew from anti-bourgeois pathos and Jewish experience — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 126
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 185