Postwar currency reform and Marshall aid signaled anti-communism replacing anti-fascism.

Evidence

In June 1948 an important step towards the stabilization of West German capitalism was brought about by currency reform. In the autumn the first instalments of the Marshall Plan arrived in Germany. They were not of any decisive economic significance, but they were a further symbol of the way in which anti-communism was taking the place of anti-fascism and West Germany was being attached to the Western camp. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1724

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the broader postwar history of West German reconstruction and the Cold War reorientation this critical theory tradition was itself part of. — connects to: Anti-communism replaced anti-Semitism as the object of displaced aggression. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1812; US Cold War anti-communism reshaped the drafting of social and economic rights — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market: Human Rights…, 190; Postwar capitalist growth was the very basis for anti-communist mobilization — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Nations, Classes, Literatures, 39
• SEED: Could feed an essay on how the Frankfurt School’s return to Germany was enabled by the same Cold War reorientation that sidelined denazification.

Broader Connections

• Anti-communism replaced anti-Semitism as the object of displaced aggression. #expands (0.85) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1812
• US Cold War anti-communism reshaped the drafting of social and economic rights #expands (0.82) — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 190
• Postwar capitalist growth was the very basis for anti-communist mobilization #qualifies (0.78) — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 39