Institut members rejected capitalist values in theory but kept bourgeois habits in practice.

Evidence

In any case, there is little to suggest that the Institut’s members carried their rejection of the commercial mentality of their parents into outright personal rebellion. Despite the fervent expressions of solidarity with the proletariat that appeared throughout their work in the pre-emigration period, at no time did a member of the Institut affect the life-style of the working class. — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 170

Categorization

• XREF: Plausibly connects to the ‘mandarin’ intellectual critique of Fritz Ringer and to Veblen’s ‘the intellectual pre-eminence of Jews’. — connects to: Commune members remained financially enmeshed in capitalism — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the…, 162; The Institute’s members never adopted a proletarian lifestyle despite their Marxist politics — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 170

Broader Connections

• Commune members remained financially enmeshed in capitalism #exemplifies (0.82) — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing, 162