Marcuse saw postwar Europe splitting into neo-fascist and Soviet blocs as a capitalist reorganization.

Evidence

The thesis with which Marcuse began his draft read: Following the military defeat of Hitler’s fascism (which was a premature and isolated form of capitalist reorganization), the world is dividing itself into two blocs, one neo-fascist and one Soviet … Those states in which the old ruling class has survived the war economically and politically will, in the foreseeable future, become fascist, while the others will enter the Soviet bloc. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1663

Categorization

• DEFINE: His parenthetical framing of fascism as ‘a premature and isolated form of capitalist reorganization’ is a distinctive Marxist position worth preserving as reference terminology.
• XREF: This bold mid-1947 cold war diagnosis contrasts sharply with how most Western Marxists then framed the US-Soviet split. — connects to: Marcuse predicted postwar states would polarize into neo-fascist and Soviet blocs — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1663; Marcuse demanded revolutionary theory oppose both neo-fascism and Soviet communism equally — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1664; Cold War pressures drove Horkheimer and Adorno apart from Marcuse’s leftism — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 864

Broader Connections

• Marcuse demanded revolutionary theory oppose both neo-fascism and Soviet communism equally #expands (0.82) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1664
• Cold War pressures drove Horkheimer and Adorno apart from Marcuse’s leftism #qualifies (0.75) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 864