Horkheimer repeatedly substituted softened formulations for Marxist-Radical demands

Evidence

Horkheimer proceeded now in exactly the same way as he had before. He had substituted the title Zeitschrift für Sozialforschung for Grünberg’s Archiv für die Geschichte des Sozialismus und der Arbeiterbewegung. In his inaugural lecture, he had substituted an apparently independent materialist transformation of German idealist philosophy for Grünberg’s appeal to Marxist theory. And he had substituted a demand for interdisciplinary work and a combination of philosophy and the various scientific disciplines for Lukács’s demandtaking up a theme from Karl Marx and Rosa Luxemburgthat the division of labour in bourgeois science should be transcended. So, too, he now used a general circumlocution which opened up an unimpeded vista compared with rigid and dogmatic left-wing theoretical positionswhile also sounding melodious and non-committal in establishment ears. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1901

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The Institute strategically self-censored Marxist vocabulary for American funders; Rationalization plus nature-domination themes replaced Marx’s critique for explaining fascism — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1369; Academic translation of Marxism blunts its revolutionary force into generalized abstraction — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 198 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Academic translation of Marxism blunts its revolutionary force into generalized abstraction #complicates (0.80) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 198
• Marxist currents widely subordinated theory to practice’s needs #exemplifies (0.75)
• Rationalization plus nature-domination themes replaced Marx’s critique for explaining fascism #complicates (0.72) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1369