Kracauer embraced Marxism only when it took the profane seriously

Evidence

Right into the 1920s, Kracauer accused the socialist movement of not being able to add religious commitment to economic commitment. It was only in the mid-1920s that he began to see Marxist theory as the current location of truthto the extent that it stood for the conviction that making the material and the profane into what was fundamental could only be avoided if the material and profane were, to begin with, seriously taken to be fundamental. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 275 (#qualifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim
• XREF: connects to: Kracauer reached Marxism only after exhausting religious commitment within socialism — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 275

Related

• Kracauer reached Marxism only after exhausting religious commitment within socialism (similarity 0.95)
• Kracauer saw Lukács’s Marxism as exhausted idealism rather than genuine innovation (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Kracauer reached Marxism only after exhausting religious commitment within socialism #qualifies (0.82) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 275