Pollock’s Soviet study aimed to prove planned socialist economy possible

Evidence

It would never have been possible to undertake reckless economic experiments of this sort if food production had not been able to continue largely unaffected by them, and if the population had not been satisfied with a very limited supply of industrial productsconditions which do not apply in densely populated industrial countries.’ Pollock himself expressly stated that Ever since Marx, socialist theoreticians have all agreed that one of the necessary preconditions for establishing a socialist economic order is a highly developed capitalist economy.' This all implied that what was happening in the Soviet Union had no implications whatever for the theoretical possibility of a socialist economic system or of a planned economy free of class domination. — <cite>Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 242</cite> (#complicates`, via linked claim)

But how could he exclude the possibility that his account, which left what was specific to the socialist planned economy aside entirely', did not equally, or even better, demonstrate that a fascist or capitalist planned economy was possible? After all, his description of the Soviet Union as socialist’ rested essentially only on the Bolsheviks’ declarations of intent. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 242 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Pollock saw capitalist planned economy as viable as socialism by 1930s — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 484; Pollock’s labeling of the Soviet economy as socialist depended on Bolshevik self-descriptions. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 242; Pollock’s Soviet field study produced cautious, politically evasive analysis — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 133 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Pollock’s Soviet study proved merely the possibility of organized capitalism. #contradicts (0.88)
• Pollock’s labeling of the Soviet economy as socialist depended on Bolshevik self-descriptions. #complicates (0.80) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 242
• The Institute viewed the Soviet economy as a variant of state capitalism #complicates (0.80) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 483
• Pollock judged the Soviet experiment irrelevant to socialism’s feasibility in industrialized countries. #complicates (0.80) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 242
• Pollock saw capitalist planned economy as viable as socialism by 1930s #qualifies (0.78) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 484
• Pollock’s Soviet field study produced cautious, politically evasive analysis #complicates (0.75) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 133