The New Deal convinced Neumann that militant democracy could succeed where Weimar failed.
Evidence
Neumann’s first impressions, which, looking back on the experience in 1952, he described as being decisive for him, indicated a point of view which was very distant from that of the Horkheimer circle. 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, 249
Categorization
- XREF: Directly corroborates the earlier kept claim that the Roosevelt New Deal convinced Neumann militant democracy could solve Germany’s failures. — connects to: The New Deal convinced Neumann that militant democracy could succeed; The Roosevelt New Deal convinced Neumann that militant democracy could solve Germany’s failures — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 939; Weimar democracy fell because its constitution aided reactionaries — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 929 (+1 more)
- DEEPTHINKING: The emigre’s transfer of political hope from a dead republic to a foreign one is the hinge on which Neumann’s legal theory of the ‘Behemoth’ state turns.
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: The New Deal convinced Neumann that militant democracy could succeed; The Roosevelt New Deal convinced Neumann that militant democracy could solve Germany’s failures — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 939; Weimar democracy fell because its constitution aided reactionaries — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 929 (+1 more)
Broader Connections
- The New Deal convinced Neumann that militant democracy could succeed
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