Ongoing self-censorship risked systematically distorting the Institute’s research priorities

Evidence

This form of self-censorship was not new; it was an Institute tradition. But it was a progressive process. And the question was whether their thinking would not at some point either be driven in the wrong direction or be distracted from penetrating analysis of elements and perspectives which had originally been seen as central and were in reality still central. Constantly doing without staff in the fields of political science and economics made this danger more severe. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1722

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The Institute suppressed overt politics in favor of indirect critical presentation — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 539; Financial sponsorship may have made the Institute’s directors self-censor — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1856; Industries used proxy institutes to secretly fund biased research (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Financial sponsorship may have made the Institute’s directors self-censor #expands (0.90) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1856
• Horkheimer censored democratic language from the student study for fear of funders #expands (0.85) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2355
• Industries used proxy institutes to secretly fund biased research #corroborates (0.72)