ABSTRACT
Friedrich Adler died in Zurich, a bastion of democracy compared to either Germany or Austria after 1937. Right-wing intellectuals, those caught in the entrails of traditional nationalism and the dictatorship of the bureaucracy had every right to reject Soviet appeals to class solidarity across national boundaries. The entire "school" broke into tiny pieces once issues of a serious nature were confronted: Neumann and Kirschheimer understood the role of law and authority, while Horkheimer and Adorno cared not a whit for the subject. Even the most sensitive of the Frankfurt group, Max Horkheimer, lapsed into a vicious, banal argument by analogy. Some of the group, such as Lowenthal, Benjamin and the ever present Adorno, essentially believed in the power of culture to move the revolution forward in a healthy direction; others, like Marcuse and Horkheimer were far too preoccupied with political psychology directly to pay much heed to cultural struggles.
