The New Deal convinced Neumann that militant democracy could succeed

Evidence

Three impressions, I believe, have remained: the Roosevelt experiment, the character of the people there and the role played by the universities … Roosevelt’s experiment showed a sceptical German that Wilsonianism, which had been preached ever since 1917, was not merely a product of propaganda, but was indeed reality. It showed that a militant democracy was able to solve precisely those problems which had destroyed the German republic. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 939 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

In the second half of the 1930s, there could be no more doubt about the ability of Nazism to survive, and the undermining of the family and the increasing reduction in unemployment seemed to match perfectly well the requirement that the individual’s character should conform to authoritarian social conditions. Under these conditions, the Institute’s original point of view could not be maintained. At the same time, the Roosevelt period in the USA showed that, even in non-fascist states, authoritarian (or subservient) thinking and behaviour was not decaying, even in the long term, but rather increasing. … Roosevelt himself had spoken of an authoritarian experiment'. — <cite>Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1030</cite> (#expands`, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The Roosevelt New Deal convinced Neumann that militant democracy could solve Germany’s failures — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 939; American New Deal evidence undermined the Frankfurt assumption that authoritarianism was decaying — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1030

Related

• The Roosevelt New Deal convinced Neumann that militant democracy could solve Germany’s failures (similarity 0.97)
• American New Deal evidence undermined the Frankfurt assumption that authoritarianism was decaying (similarity 0.92)

Broader Connections

• The Roosevelt New Deal convinced Neumann that militant democracy could solve Germany’s failures #corroborates (0.95) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 939
• American New Deal evidence undermined the Frankfurt assumption that authoritarianism was decaying #expands (0.72) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1030