Horkheimer privately held American social antisemitism nearly matched Nazi Germany’s psychological basis

Evidence

Horkheimer had claimed that social anti-Semitism was much worse in the USA than in Europe, leading one to suppose that, in spite of the obvious differences between the USA and the Third Reich, the difference between their psychological bases was dangerously small. Horkheimer apparently did not dare to risk the consequences of openly stating this claim and the theoretical ideas he and Adorno had developed. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 389

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the Frankfurt School’s arguments about the culture industry and ‘racket’ society as latent fascism in liberal capitalism. — connects to: Horkheimer derived his social perception from Jewish collective experience; Nazi antisemitism borrowed conventional views but wielded them with demagogic skill — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 2627; The Holocaust forced Americans to confront their own group-based prejudice — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 2083 (+1 more)
• SEED: An essay on the gap between what émigré theorists published for American sponsors and what they dared say privately.
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Horkheimer derived his social perception from Jewish collective experience; Nazi antisemitism borrowed conventional views but wielded them with demagogic skill — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 2627; The Holocaust forced Americans to confront their own group-based prejudice — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 2083 (+1 more)