Pollock saw 1960s American unrest as portending fascist rule

Evidence

From this distance, what is happening in the USA looks really pathetic. All these symptoms of disintegration of a “Great Society” (this is meant quite seriously considering the positive elements of American life as measured in terms of other countries) point to no other alternative but the loss of the remaining liberties and the rule of a narrowly materialistic middle class under a ruthless ” Fuhrer.” — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 8

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the reader’s knowledge of Pollock’s earlier state-capitalism thesis — the same framework he developed in the 1940s about authoritarian capitalism, here applied to the late 1960s.