Pollock held a philistine, pre-Leninist Marxist orthodoxy focused on economics

Evidence

Although Pollock, like the others, studied philosophy, it was only a minor subject alongside his principal interest, economics, in which he took his doctorate in 1923 with a thesis on Marx’s monetary theory. In an article On Marx's Monetary Theory' published in 1928 in Grünberg's Archiv, he complained about the unhappy division between the economic and philosophical elements in Marx’s system’. But he had a lifelong, philistine contempt for philosophical theory, and held to a pre-Leninist form of Marxist orthodoxy. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 237

Categorization

• XREF: Pollock’s economics-first orthodoxy and his contempt for philosophy set up the later split between Horkheimer’s philosophical critical theory and Pollock’s concrete analysis of state capitalism and administered society. — connects to: Pollock saw state capitalist intervention as a promising new stage already by 1933 — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1156; Pollock defended Marxism as a universal natural science against Sombart’s attack — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 235; Pollock held a philistine contempt for philosophy and pre-Leninist Marxist orthodoxy