Neumann rejected the idea of crisis-free noncapitalist state control as fanciful

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Neumann’s efforts in Behemoth to expose the concept of state capitalism as a contradiction in terms ran in the same direction, since they aimed to demonstrate that a crisis-free form of capitalism was inconceivable. Strangely, Neumann did not concern himself with the idea of a noncapitalist authoritarian social formation, an `integral statism’perhaps because the idea of a third possibility beyond the alternative of capitalism and socialism in European conditions seemed too fanciful and out of touch with reality. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1171

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• XREF: connects to: Ordoliberals borrowed Schmitt’s diagnosis of the state but rejected his authoritarian conclusions — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 577