Horkheimer feared Pollock’s state capitalism paper read as sympathetic to it

Evidence

But he insisted on avoiding the misunderstanding that there is too much sympathy here with state capitalism'. If I might formulate my general wishes here, they would be that the interconnectedness and ambiguity of the phenomena should be made more obvious … and that everything should be made to look less rigidly administrative.’ — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1166

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Horkheimer’s state-capitalism thesis entirely lacks Pollock’s affirmative assessment — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 569; Pollock’s state capitalism thesis drew criticism even from his closest Institute colleagues. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1162

Broader Connections

• Horkheimer’s state-capitalism thesis entirely lacks Pollock’s affirmative assessment #qualifies (0.85) — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 569