Horkheimer suppressed Fromm’s worker study as both too Marxist and not Marxist enough
Evidence
It is likely that the study, which was to be published in English, did really seem to Horkheimer to be too Marxist, as Fromm later declared to Wolfgang Bonss. For a Marxist study, on the other hand, it was not `polished’ enough. In addition, the change in Horkheimer’s source of intellectual stimulation from Fromm to Adorno increased his reluctance to publish a work in which Fromm’s methodological achievements in the field of empirical social research were at their clearest and most impressive. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 195
Categorization
- XREF: Directly instantiates the learned example ‘Horkheimer suppressed Fromm’s worker study as both too Marxist and not Marxist enough’ from this same book. — connects to: The workers’ inquiry findings were suppressed partly for their politically damaging implications — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 475; The Institute suppressed Fromm’s Weimar worker study for ideological reasons — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 716; Adorno’s arrival displaced Fromm and changed the Frankfurt School’s intellectual tone — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 353 (+3 more)
- DEEPTHINKING: A study failed to publish not because of evidence or method but because it fit no ideological slot — an object lesson in how intellectual authority polices its own boundary.
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 195
Broader Connections
- The Institute suppressed Fromm’s Weimar worker study for ideological reasons
#expands(0.95) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 716 - Adorno’s arrival displaced Fromm and changed the Frankfurt School’s intellectual tone
#complicates(0.70) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 353