Conservative views were broadly tolerated as scientific, socialist ones narrowly.

Evidence

Professors politically to the right of Social Democracy could point openly to the distinction between ideology and science and could count on the setting of very wide boundaries within which their views would still be considered scientific by their colleagues. For scholars professing socialism, by contrast, the boundaries were in the eyes of most professors extremely narrow. In this situation Grünberg did not attempt to make Marxism secretly respectable at the university in the way that Felix Weil thought it could be done; nor did he try to discuss problems openly, as Max Weber hoped to do. What Grünberg did instead was to demand with self-confidence the same things for Marxist scholars which were offered to others as a matter of course, i.e. that their world-view should not from the outset be made a criterion of academic seriousness. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 102

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the reader’s notes from the Groys/ideology-science materials and the general asymmetry of tolerance in academic discipline formation. — connects to: Conservatism historically means defending inequality and tradition over science; Neoliberalism crystallized partly as opposition to scientists promoting planned socialism

Broader Connections

• Conservatism historically means defending inequality and tradition over science #corroborates (0.75)
• Neoliberalism crystallized partly as opposition to scientists promoting planned socialism #contradicts (0.75)