Neumann met the state-capitalism pessimists by pointing to deepening industrial contradictions.

Evidence

Neumann had accused the theoreticians of state capitalism of not being able to give any evidence for the decay of the system they diagnosed, and for his own part he claimed that the contradictions of capitalism were working on a higher and therefore more dangerous level in Germany than elsewhere. He cited the familiar contradictions of Marxist, or critical, theory: There exists a fundamental antagonism between the productivity of German industry, its capacity for promoting the welfare of the people and its actual achievements, and this antagonism is steadily deepening. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 312

Categorization

• XREF: Continues the debate on whether fascism stabilizes or intensifies monopoly capitalism. — connects to: Horkheimer’s dispute with Neumann centered on optimism about capitalism’s contradictions. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 312; Capitalism may resolve its internal contradictions by making them tolerable rather than ending them — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 161; Neumann held the productivity-for-welfare versus destruction contradiction would eventually turn the masses
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Horkheimer’s dispute with Neumann centered on optimism about capitalism’s contradictions. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 312; Capitalism may resolve its internal contradictions by making them tolerable rather than ending them — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 161; Neumann held the productivity-for-welfare versus destruction contradiction would eventually turn the masses

Broader Connections

• Capitalism may resolve its internal contradictions by making them tolerable rather than ending them #complicates (0.78) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 161