Pollock held a philistine contempt for philosophy and pre-Leninist Marxist orthodoxy

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 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Pollock held a philistine, pre-Leninist Marxist orthodoxy focused on economics — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 237

Broader Connections

• Pollock held a philistine, pre-Leninist Marxist orthodoxy focused on economics #expands (0.92) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 237