Weimar’s compromise order collapsed once economic crisis intervened

Evidence

Probably thanks to intervention by Laski, the leading theoretician of the Labour Party, who at that time was still thinking in Marxist terms, Neumann was awarded a grant from the London School of Economics and financial support from Jewish organizations. He went to England as a failed reformist and legalist. In his first exile publication, an article on The Decay of German Democracy', which appeared in the Political Quarterly at the end of 1933, he diagnosed the situation: The system had been set up on the ground between socialism and capitalism, and could only survive so long as economic crisis did not intervene.’ When the crisis came, All the reactionary parties concentrated their efforts on a single goal: the destruction of parliamentary democracy as the constitutional platform for the emancipation of the workers. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 928

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Weimar’s hybrid socialist-capitalist system collapsed when economic crisis struck — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 928; Ordoliberals blamed mass society and proletarianization for the Weimar Republic’s collapse — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 508; Austerity in Weimar Germany crippled labor and enabled Nazi takeover — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 234 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Weimar’s hybrid socialist-capitalist system collapsed when economic crisis struck #corroborates (0.95) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 928
• Ordoliberals blamed mass society and proletarianization for the Weimar Republic’s collapse #qualifies (0.80) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 508
• Austerity in Weimar Germany crippled labor and enabled Nazi takeover #expands (0.75) — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 234
• Weimar hyperinflation ended quickly and was succeeded by austerity-triggered collapse. #expands (0.75) — Mark Blyth, Austerity, 527
• Failed succession between economic orders invites institutional vacuum and catastrophe #expands (0.70) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 29
• Weimar-era cartelization forced the state to pick between crushing or strengthening monopolies #complicates (0.70) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 509
• Economic collapse destroyed social fabric and private life before Nazism’s rise #expands (0.70) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 253
• German trade unions proposed a Keynesian reflation plan that the SPD hierarchy actively destroyed #complicates (0.70) — Mark Blyth, Austerity, 530