Horkheimer warned Pollock that his state-capitalism outline risked endorsing the totalitarian answer.

Evidence

Horkheimer had already written to Pollock, after reading his outline for his state capitalism' article, It will be a difficult problem to avoid the error of taking sides with the “totalitarian answer”.’ — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 304

Categorization

  • XREF: Ties to the recurring struggle in the book over whether Critical Theory can describe a managed society without legitimating it. — connects to: Horkheimer feared Pollock’s state capitalism paper read as sympathetic to it — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1166
  • yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Horkheimer feared Pollock’s state capitalism paper read as sympathetic to it — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1166

Broader Connections