Pollock and Horkheimer converged on Social Democratic socialism despite Bolshevik inflections.

Evidence

By a roundabout route, via an acceptance of the need to organize and steer the economy using Bolshevik methodsi.e. exploitation of the state’s monopoly of power by an active minoritymethods that were natural to communists but abhorred by Social Democrats, Pollock and Horkheimer came in the end to share the Social Democrats’ views on how socialism was to be achieved. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 247

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the broader Frankfurt School tension between Soviet sympathy and Western Social Democracy that shapes Habermas’s later normative turn. — connects to: Horkheimer and Pollock were already communists by 1924 — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 180
• corroborated: 3 independent passages support this claim — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 247

Broader Connections

• Horkheimer and Pollock were already communists by 1924 #corroborates (0.90) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 180