Grossmann never lost his enthusiasm for Soviet communism despite exile
Evidence
Like Wittfogel’s and Borkenau’s, Grossmann’s politics were grounded in a relatively unreflective enthusiasm for the Soviet Union, but although he had been a member of the Polish Communist Party, it seems unlikely that he ever became an actual member of its German counterpart after coming to Frankfurt. Unlike them, he did not experience a later disillusionment with communism, even during his decade or so of exile in America, when many others with similar backgrounds repudiated their past. — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 129
Categorization
Category: Contrarian or Surprising Claims
Related
- Grossmann’s pro-Soviet Marxism survived exile when fellow Institute theorists repudiated theirs (similarity 0.88)
- Grossmann kept orthodox Marxist theory longer than his fellow exiled intellectuals (similarity 0.86)
- Political and personal estrangement drove Grossmann to resettle in East Germany. (similarity 0.80)
- The Marxist Institute never seriously considered exile to Stalin’s Russia (similarity 0.78)