The Institute’s financial independence licensed Horkheimer to link fascism to capitalism openly.

Evidence

Horkheimer’s statement on the first page of his essay on The Jews and Europe' was, in the context of the views then held by the émigré Germans, a daring one. He would hardly have risked being as unequivocal as this in English: No one can ask the émigrés to hold a mirror up to the world that has produced fascism in the very place in which they are being offered asylum. But those who do not wish to speak of capitalism should be silent about fascism.’ In articulating this sort of view, Horkheimer saw himself as someone who was using the Institute’s independence to speak the truths which other émigrés, if they were not already blind to them anyway, did not dare to express. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 278

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Horkheimer’s later essays on state capitalism and the ‘rackets’ theory of totalitarian monopoly capitalism. — connects to: Horkheimer secured ample funding for rebuilding the Frankfurt Institute — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1861; Horkheimer’s private wealth funded the Institute through a lifelong annuity — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 445; The Institute’s financial independence freed radical scholarship from the rigid German academy — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 100 (+2 more)
• DEFINE: The slogan ‘those who do not wish to speak of capitalism should be silent about fascism’ crystallizes the Institute’s core political-theoretical axiom.
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Horkheimer secured ample funding for rebuilding the Frankfurt Institute — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1861; Horkheimer’s private wealth funded the Institute through a lifelong annuity — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 445; The Institute’s financial independence freed radical scholarship from the rigid German academy — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 100 (+2 more)