Academic translation of Marxism blunts its revolutionary force into generalized abstraction

Evidence

To sympathize with those who were currently engaged in the struggle seemed to him to be rash. Our bourgeois morality is stricter [than the Catholic clergy]. If anyone is harbouring revolutionary ideas, he is supposed to speak out at least, even when it's pointless, or rather especially when it's pointlessso that he can be persecuted.' On the other hand, he criticized some of his colleagues: Translating Marxism into the academic style seemed, in post-war Germany, like an attempt to break the will of the workers to fight capitalism.’ The treatment of the topic by professors, the `professional intellectual representatives of humanity’, turned the causes of class conflict into a generalized problem and allowed mitigating circumstances to be taken into consideration. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 198

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Directly parallels the modesty/immodesty article’s theme of intellectuals sanitizing subversive content into polite discourse.
• XREF: Echoes the standing critique of academic Marxism — relevant to the reader’s Critical Theory synthesis. — connects to: The base-superstructure formula weakened Marxism by reducing ideas to mere reflections — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1693; A new Marxist paradigm seeks to overcome economism and reductionism; The Institute strategically self-censored Marxist vocabulary for American funders (+3 more)
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 198

Broader Connections

• The base-superstructure formula weakened Marxism by reducing ideas to mere reflections #corroborates (0.75) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1693
• A new Marxist paradigm seeks to overcome economism and reductionism #responds-to (0.75)