Thomas Meaney on Habermas

'It cannot be stressed enough how far the Frankfurt School of the 1960s was from the Marxism of the interwar period. The ‘Western Marxism’ of Frankfurt prided itself on retaining what it thought was living in the tradition – its dialectical method and style – while discarding its historical analysis, which it blamed for both the dangers of adventurism, from the March Action of 1921 to the Red Army Faction, and the political quietism of a left that passively expected history to work out for it'

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https://newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/normcore?pc=1750