The Institute censored Marxist vocabulary to shield itself from political attack.

Evidence

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’. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 230

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the learned example about the Institute strategically self-censoring Marxist vocabulary for American funders — here the same self-censorship is attached to press-protection rather than donors.