Horkheimer and Adorno sought patronage from ruling authorities rather than the left.

Evidence

In contrast to Wolfgang Abendroth, one of the few professors who openly admitted to being a socialist, Horkheimer and Adorno sought support, not from the labour movement or from opposition groups, but from the ruling authorities themselves. As Horkheimer put it in a letter of thanks to the Prime Minister of the state of Hesse, Georg August Zinn, they were looking for friends in high places, the sort of friends often hoped for in vain by academics also pursuing the practical goals of genuine education'. — <cite>Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1846</cite> (#corroborates`, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Horkheimer and Adorno courted state authorities rather than the labour movement — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1846; Sixties radicals regarded Adorno and Horkheimer as sell-outs who betrayed revolution — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 5

Broader Connections

• Horkheimer and Adorno courted state authorities rather than the labour movement #corroborates (0.95) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1846