Horkheimer accepted Rockefeller Foundation money while condemning it as corrupting intellectual culture

Evidence

In April 1948 Horkheimer boarded the Queen Mary for a one-month trip to Europe. He had been given a grant by the Rockefeller Foundationthe very institution which, by his own standards, was investing the merest fraction of the surplus from the oldest and largest capitalist conglomerates in the USA in the corruption of intellectual activity and cultureto take up a guest professorship at Frankfurt University. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1704

Categorization

• XREF: The irony of the theory-of-capitalism critic taking Rockefeller funding echoes the Institute’s dependence on capitalist wealth and Horkheimer’s father’s money. — connects to: Horkheimer accepted Rockefeller funding he privately condemned to return to Frankfurt. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1704; The Rockefeller Foundation refused to fund Marcuse’s German-American anthropology project. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1987

Broader Connections

• Horkheimer accepted Rockefeller funding he privately condemned to return to Frankfurt. #corroborates (1.00) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1704