The Roosevelt New Deal convinced Neumann that militant democracy could solve Germany’s failures

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

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth chasing: which specific New Deal policies struck Neumann as solving the problems that destroyed the Weimar Republic?
• XREF: connects to: The New Deal convinced Neumann that militant democracy could succeed; American New Deal evidence undermined the Frankfurt assumption that authoritarianism was decaying — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1030; The New Deal convinced Neumann that militant democracy could succeed where Weimar failed. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 249

Broader Connections

• American New Deal evidence undermined the Frankfurt assumption that authoritarianism was decaying #corroborates (0.85) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1030