Late Horkheimer embraced anti-Communist and pro-American rhetoric

Evidence

In 1966 Horkheimer expressed alarm about the Chinese Communist threat by saying that Kaiser Wilhelm I1’s warning about “the menace of the yellow race should be taken very seriously today”; “On the Concept of Freedom,” Diogenes, 53 (Paris, 1966). In the following year, he appeared at a celebration of German-American Friendship Week on the Romerplatz in Frankfurt, which prompted anti-Vietnam War students to shout “Horkheimer R4us” in an effort to persuade him to dissociate himself from American policy. They failed. — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 1726

Categorization

• SHARE: A striking nugget for anyone studying Horkheimer’s late conservative turn or the Frankfurt School’s political afterlife.
• XREF: Connects to the reader’s broader interest in the Institute’s wartime exile and postwar trajectory elsewhere in this book. — connects to: Horkheimer endorsed council communism over Leninist dictatorship in 1942 — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 496; Cold War pressures drove Horkheimer and Adorno apart from Marcuse’s leftism — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 864; A new Left intellectual type combined Third World rhetoric with anti-communism — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Nations, Classes, Literatures, 356 (+13 more)

Broader Connections

• Horkheimer himself had renounced the critique of political economy by the 1940s #corroborates (0.90) — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 898
• A new Left intellectual type combined Third World rhetoric with anti-communism #corroborates (0.82) — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 356
• Marcuse and Neumann preserved Critical Theory’s political project that Horkheimer and Adorno abandoned #corroborates (0.78) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 31