Most German émigré intellectuals abandoned the fascism-capitalism link by 1939.

Evidence

In articulating this sort of view, Horkheimer saw himself as someone who was using the Institute’s independence to speak the truths which other émigrés, if they were not already blind to them anyway, did not dare to express. In fact the former religious socialists Paul Tillich and Eduard Heimann had in the meantime moved over to the view that there could be no question of fascism having a class character or of a crucial link between fascism and capitalism. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1067

Categorization

• SEED: Angle for an essay: the émigré intellectual contest over what fascism WAS — Horkheimer’s Marxism vs Rauschning’s ‘revolution of nihilism’ vs Lederer’s ‘abolition of history’.
• XREF: connects to: By the late 1930s most Jewish émigré intellectuals had rejected class-based analyses of fascism. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1067

Broader Connections

• By the late 1930s most Jewish émigré intellectuals had rejected class-based analyses of fascism. #corroborates (0.85) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1067