Horkheimer treated every non-work hour as irresponsible waste

Evidence

There is one favor which I most seriously want to ask you, and I beg you not to forget it even for one minute of my stay there, even if I should waver myself: don’t let me stay one day longer than absolutely necessary … Every day, nay, every hour which is left to me for our work must be devoted to it without any conformism. Our common life would be irresponsible if we should wast [sic] any of the hours in which I am able to work for other purpose [sic] than those of the continuation of our mere existence. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1490

Categorization

• XREF: A vivid primary-source window into the Institute’s survival psychology during exile — resonates with the broader scarcity-and-work ethos documented across exiled Frankfurt School records.