Institute theorists disguised radical work under conventional disciplinary labels to protect it.

Evidence

Since Horkheimer and Adorno were sceptical about the importance to the AJC of explicit theory, the theoretical work on the anti-Semitism project was carried out partly in a grey area between the dialectics project and the anti-Semitism project and partly under the label `Psychology of Anti-Semitism’, so that they would be able to offer as much of their own material as possible under the protection of traditional terminology. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 381

Categorization

• XREF: Parallels the recorded pattern of the Institute strategically self-censoring Marxist vocabulary for American funders.
• SHARE: A delicious institutional detail — the Frankfurt theorists sneaking their real theory past their own sponsors’ terminology — worth sending to anyone who studies academic funding politics.