The US democracy study restated the Weimar worker study’s question for American democratic loyalty

Evidence

The Institute’s study on the working class in Weimar Germany proved in retrospect to have been an attempt to answer the question of how firmly the socialist views taken by the working class were anchored in instinctual structure, and how far the workers could be relied upon to stand by their left-wing views in crisis situations. The Berkeley group’s research directed itself more and more clearly towards a moderatedone might almost say, more modestvariation on the same problem, namely the question of how firmly the democratic views of people in the United States were anchored in individual personality structure, and how far they could be relied on to stand by their democratic views in crisis situations. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1591

Categorization

• XREF: Directly ties the American phase back to the Weimar Studies on Authority and the Family and the suppressed worker inquiry. — connects to: The Berkeley authoritarianism study repeated the Weimar worker study’s instinctual-structure question for American democrats — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1590

Broader Connections

• The Berkeley authoritarianism study repeated the Weimar worker study’s instinctual-structure question for American democrats #corroborates (0.90) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1590