The Institute’s democracy concept shifted from coded concession to radical measure

Evidence

What was also new was that the concept of democracywhich in The Authoritarian Personality, and even more so in Group Experiment, had been a concession to research clients and the prevailing situation, concealing radically anti-capitalist, utopian-revolutionary criteriawas invested with radical content by Habermas and overtly made into an explicit standard of measurement. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2335

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the Institute’s earlier self-censorship of Marxist vocabulary for American funders (ch54) and the ‘Studies in Prejudice’ euphemism (ch61). — connects to: Institute student research assessed democratic potential through three-level interpretation — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2348; The Institute’s psychological typology shifted from revolutionary to democratic under American influence. — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 428

Broader Connections

• Institute student research assessed democratic potential through three-level interpretation #expands (0.72) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2348
• The Institute’s psychological typology shifted from revolutionary to democratic under American influence. #complicates (0.72) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 428