Horkheimer held that authoritarian societies still need living authorities

Evidence

No authoritarian society could in the end maintain itself without reproducing living' experts and authoritiesthis was what could be read, out of Horkheimer's often contradictory views, as his ultimate conviction. But where were the living’ authoritieswhich could not be reproduced by authoritarian societiesand where were the rational authority relations mentioned by Fromm, based on solidarity and common interest, to come from? This was a question which left the authors of the `theoretical drafts’ at a loss. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 622

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth chasing: the Institute’s theorists identified a gap—authoritarian systems reproduce authority figures yet cannot reproduce genuinely living ones—but never resolved where live authorities would come from.
• XREF: connects to: Horkheimer argued ideology’s collapse left people submissive rather than liberated — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1071

Broader Connections

• Horkheimer argued ideology’s collapse left people submissive rather than liberated #complicates (0.75) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1071