Kirchheimer held that accelerating Weimar leftward was the way to stop fascism

Evidence

Because of his faith in the revolutionary potential of the workers, Kirchheimer was able to argue that the SPD ought not to support the presidential government of Bruning, despite the arguments to the contrary of more moderate Socialists. To Kirchheimer, the authori tarian “state above the parties” was less an obstacle to fascism than a prelude. The way to prevent Weimar’s collapse to the right was to accelerate its potential to the left. — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 473

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the debate over whether the SPD should have backed Bruning’s presidential government, a central Weimar historiography question. — connects to: Neumann urged realizing Weimar’s basic rights rather than abandoning the Republic — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 925