West German anti-communists branded even anti-Stalinist Frankfurt thinkers as communist propagandists.

Evidence

The editor of the literary supplement of the weekly Die Zeit, which was politically right-wing at the time and had published Carl Schmitt and others, added an editorial note to a review of Adorno’s Prisms, without the reviewer’s knowledge, to the effect that the Frankfurt sociologist Wiesengrund-Adorno' was a propagandist for the “classless society”’. This showed how irritatedly anti-communists could reacteven to someone who in articles such as his Nannied Music', published in 1953 in the anti-communist journal Monat, had unambiguously expressed his criticisms of the Eastern stewards of culture’ and of the dictatorships' that were in power on the other side of the border’. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 537

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the book’s broader account of Adenauer-era restoration and the hostile reception of Critical Theory. — connects to: The Frankfurt School critiqued both Stalinism and Western capitalism in equal measure — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 685; Calling opponents racist equated them with Nazis in Soviet rhetoric
• SEED: Article angle: ‘The Anti-Communist Fever That Mistook Adorno for a Communist’ — the paradox of critic-both-ways in Cold War West Germany.
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: The Frankfurt School critiqued both Stalinism and Western capitalism in equal measure — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 685; Calling opponents racist equated them with Nazis in Soviet rhetoric