Industrial productive capacity defeats technologically advanced terror states in total war.

Evidence

And Adorno was proved essentially right in what he wrote to Horkheimer on 9 May 1945, immediately after hearing the news that Germany had surrendered: As usually happens in our disagreements over practical matters, we have both been proved right. My bourgeois thesis that Hitler could not last has been proved correct, although with a delay so long as to render it ironical. In other words: the productive forces of the economically more developed countries have proved stronger than the heights of technology and terror achieved by the `latecomer’: in accordance with the general historical tendency, the war has been won by industry against the military. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 408

Categorization

• XREF: Feeds directly into the book’s later treatment of Neumann’s Behemoth thesis about monopolized industry and state terror — here the productive-forces thesis wins on the battlefield first.