Pollock’s state capitalism thesis drew criticism even from his closest Institute colleagues.

Evidence

Pollock’s study was controversial from the start. It was not only Neumann who criticized itopenly and directly, in his usual waybut also, with more courtesy, all of those besides Pollock who belonged to the inner circle', namely Horkheimer, Lowenthal and Adorno. … Horkheimer had already written to Pollock, after reading his outline for his state capitalism’ article, `It will be a difficult problem to avoid the error of taking sides with the “totalitarian answer”.’ — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1162

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Horkheimer feared Pollock’s state capitalism paper read as sympathetic to it — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1166

Broader Connections

• Horkheimer feared Pollock’s state capitalism paper read as sympathetic to it #exemplifies (0.95) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1166