Institute executive power was seen as essential to guard against conspiratorial rivals

Evidence

However: I do not have a better suggestion, simply due to a lack of available people. My advice is therefore: muddle through and do not make any organizational changes until I get back. What we do then we will have to see; if you become chief consultant then, it would be a good idea for me to take over the active directorship, at least for a time. It is becoming more and more clear to me that the Institute, together with the university, is our main asset in the ever more difficult struggle with reality, and the moment we no longer have the executive power in our hands, all sides will at once conspire against us. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1971

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Horkheimer’s institutional maneuvering and the power-politics of scholarship throughout the book. — connects to: Invisibility from retaliation confers power to act with impunity. — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 342; Preserving textual authority was seen as essential to political power

Broader Connections

• Invisibility from retaliation confers power to act with impunity. #expands (0.80) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 342
• Preserving textual authority was seen as essential to political power #complicates (0.75)