Zeitschrift editors censored Adorno’s Marxian vocabulary to avoid appearing doctrinaire

Evidence

Horkheimer remarks that Pollock is ‘of the opinion that the concept of “exchange-value” belongs on another theoretical level as that on which it is used in the essay. This passage could thus give the impression of mere “coquetry” with Marxian terminology, which at any rate should be avoided’. — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 355

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the materialist/critical-theory debate and to Adorno’s ‘coquetry with Marxian terminology’ episode; relevant to the book’s revisionist thesis about editorial politics shaping what counts as political economy. — connects to: In open societies censorship of critical thought takes the form of omission — Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 26; The Institute strategically self-censored Marxist vocabulary for American funders; Horkheimer censored explicit political language in Institute publications — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 865 (+4 more)
• SHARE: Worth sending to a friend studying Frankfurt School editorial history—the Pollock note on avoiding ‘coquetry’ with Marx is a telling detail about intramural tensions.

Broader Connections

• In open societies censorship of critical thought takes the form of omission #expands (0.80) — Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 26