The Franfurt School’s 1950s context resembled its 1931 Weimar origins in political volatility

Evidence

These were politically explosive times, not unlike 1931, when Horkheimer had given his inaugural lecture as Professor of Social Philosophy and director of the Institute of Social Research. … The Korean War had been going on since 1950. … McCarthyism was reaching its peak in the United States. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1894

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The Frankfurt School revised its theories in response to the changing postwar social reality — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 765; The 1930s offered a visibly stark class antagonism that postindustrial capitalism obscures — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 24; Austerity in Weimar Germany crippled labor and enabled Nazi takeover — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 234

Broader Connections

• The 1930s offered a visibly stark class antagonism that postindustrial capitalism obscures #corroborates (0.80) — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 24
• The Frankfurt School revised its theories in response to the changing postwar social reality #complicates (0.75) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 765
• Austerity in Weimar Germany crippled labor and enabled Nazi takeover #corroborates (0.72) — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 234