Institute members collectively analyzed National Socialism across law, economy, and politics.

Evidence

After Marcuse’s opening talk, Gurland lectured on Private Property under National Socialism', Neumann on The New Rulers in Germany’, Kirchheimer on Law and Justice under National Socialism' and Pollock on Is National Socialism a New Social and Economic System?’ The plan to publish the lectures in book form as a contribution by the Institute to the war effort did not work out. Instead, the planned philosophical' issue of SPSS turned into one on National Socialism, containing revised versions of the three lectures by Marcuse, Kirchheimer and Pollock, along with Horkheimer's article on reason and one by Adorno on Veblen’s Attack on Culture’. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 319

Categorization

• XREF: The SPSS National Socialism issue is where Neumann’s Behemoth, Kirchheimer’s legal analyses, and Pollock’s state-capitalism essays converged; connects to the reader’s interest in the Frankfurt School’s fascism diagnosis.