Neumann faulted Pollock for lacking a transition theory from monopoly to state capitalism

Evidence

Neumann’s second main objection to Pollock was that he neither had a theory of the transition from monopoly capitalism to state capitalism nor offered, on the basis of a substantial analysis of Germany, for example, any evidence that Germany was state capitalist in any of its essential characteristics. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1172

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Adorno condemned Pollock’s state capitalism thesis as undialectical and complacent. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1163; Neumann saw Pollock’s state-capitalism thesis as abandoning Marxism for Mannheim’s sociology. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1179

Broader Connections

• Neumann saw Pollock’s state-capitalism thesis as abandoning Marxism for Mannheim’s sociology. #expands (0.90) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1179