Horkheimer read fascist race riots as nature’s dark rebellion serving repressive powers.

Evidence

Horkheimer saw civilization as having been attended from the beginning by opposition to, and revolts against, the repression of nature, in the form of social rebellions, individual crimes and psychological disturbances. Borrowing a term from Horkheimer’s description of some middle-class writers, it can be said that he counted as social rebellions not only the bright' ones, i.e. revolutions, but also the dark’ ones, the black' rebellions (rebellions in the sense of the terminology used in Studies on Authority and the Family). He described the cleverly staged race riots of our own day’ as a `Nazi rebellion of nature against civilization’, in which forbidden instincts were given free rein in the service of repressive powers. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 373

Categorization

• XREF: Connects the Studies on Authority and the Family ‘black rebellion’ typology to the Dialectic of Enlightenment thesis that enlightenment reverts to myth; also echoes the reader’s Black Marxism notes on racial ideology rationalizing existing power.
• QUESTION: How exactly did Horkheimer distinguish ‘bright’ from ‘dark’ rebellions, and did he ever apply the schema to genuinely emancipatory revolts rather than staged riots?