> The Frankfurters of course, almost
>to a man, were great admirers of Nietzsche, as was Lukacs.
I'm not sure that you can count Lukacs' sustained (and wonderful) diatribe against Nietzsche in Destruction of Reason as admiration. I suspect it is the original for the argument that Nietzsche is a precursor of the Nazis.
As to the Frankfurters, their embrace of Nietzsche is surely a sign of their degeneration, and retreat from Marxism
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