Horkheimer planned the journal to outlast the founding generation’s departure.

Evidence

The most important thing is that we want to produce a journal again, which will be the core of the Institute’s activity. Once it is in place, a certain course will be set which the assistants here will still be able to follow when we have all left. You will enjoy having these assistants very much, but they are still far too young to do anything independently. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1984