Social Democratic editors neglected Marx’s papers yet censored their letters

Evidence

Engels had bequeathed his own and Marx’s unpublished works to Eduard Bernstein and August Bebel, or rather to German Social Democracy as a whole. The party members entrusted with the editing of these papers, Bernstein, Mehring and Kautsky, made no effort to go through them systematically or edit them conscientiously. They did, however, take the trouble, in their incomplete edition of the letters, to undertake countless excisions and alterations. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 116 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Horkheimer remarks that Pollock is ‘of the opinion that the concept of “exchange-value” belongs on another theoretical level as that on which it is used in the essay. This passage could thus give the impression of mere “coquetry” with Marxian terminology, which at any rate should be avoided’. — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 355 (#responds-to, via linked claim)

The reason for these omissions was the same as in Horkheimer’s reminder to Adorno, for a lecture at the London Institute of Sociology at the beginning of 1938, to speak extremely scientistically', not one word that can be interpreted politically’, even avoid expressions like "materialist" . . . at all costs'. The journal and the Institute must, as a scientific organ’ or as a scientific institution, be protected from being dragged into any political discussion in the press'. — <cite>Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 865</cite> (#responds-to`, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: German Social Democrats neglected and censored Marx and Engels’ papers — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 116; Zeitschrift editors censored Adorno’s Marxian vocabulary to avoid appearing doctrinaire — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 355; Horkheimer censored explicit political language in Institute publications — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 865

Broader Connections

• German Social Democrats neglected and censored Marx and Engels’ papers #corroborates (0.98) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 116
• Zeitschrift editors censored Adorno’s Marxian vocabulary to avoid appearing doctrinaire #responds-to (0.80) — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 355
• Horkheimer censored explicit political language in Institute publications #responds-to (0.75) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 865