Horkheimer and Adorno judged orthodox Marxist confession masochistic and obsolete.

Evidence

This global political diagnosis corresponded to Horkheimer’s and Adorno’s views. The plea for a defence of orthodox Marxist doctrine', and the uninhibited use of the words socialism’, communism' and capitalism’, however, was certain to displease the authors of the Philosophical Fragments in two ways: first, because in their view an uncompromising profession of belief in orthodox Marxism was equivalent to masochism; secondly, because they were convinced that the principal elements of a critique of society had in the meantime come to differ from those of Marxist doctrine. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 412

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: Equating an avowed commitment to orthodox Marxism with masochism is a genuine break: it reframes revolutionary fidelity as a psychological symptom, which is the hinge of the whole postwar Frankfurt trajectory.
• DEFINE: Names the precise divergence — critique of society no longer mapped onto Marxist categories — that defines late Critical Theory against its own origins.
• XREF: connects to: Horkheimer and Adorno rejected orthodox Marxism as masochistic and outdated for social critique. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1665; Horkheimer and Adorno came to regard orthodox Marxist profession as masochism; Adorno and Horkheimer rejected all optimistic philosophies of history including Marxism. — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 800
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Horkheimer and Adorno rejected orthodox Marxism as masochistic and outdated for social critique. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1665; Horkheimer and Adorno came to regard orthodox Marxist profession as masochism; Adorno and Horkheimer rejected all optimistic philosophies of history including Marxism. — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 800

Broader Connections

• Horkheimer and Adorno rejected orthodox Marxism as masochistic and outdated for social critique. #expands (0.97) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1665
• Horkheimer and Adorno came to regard orthodox Marxist profession as masochism #corroborates (0.96)