The Institute drifted leftward relative to other German émigrés by modernizing slower.

Evidence

Minor successes in clarifying matters like this were not necessarily lasting, and were frustrated by the fact that Horkheimer’s Institute was becoming relatively more left-wing without their own doingsimply because it was withdrawing from older views at a slower pace than most of the other émigrés who were not already conservative. 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.’ — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1066

Categorization

• CANDY: ‘Those who do not wish to speak of capitalism should be silent about fascism’ is a sharp, quotable line.
• XREF: connects to: Postwar German social science had fallen behind other industrial nations — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1852

Broader Connections

• Postwar German social science had fallen behind other industrial nations #qualifies (0.75) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1852