Marxism and communism retained respectability among the affluent young in late-1920s Frankfurt

Evidence

At the end of the 1920s, Marxism and communism were no less respectable in Frankfurt than they had been in the years immediately after the November Revolution. They were particularly important to young people from the better-off sections of the population. Leading associates of the newspaper Frankfurter Zeitung still ranged from left-wing liberals to socialists, and well-known city figures such as Richard Merton were complaining about foreign infiltration' by socialists’ and `Reds’. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 131

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the broader narrative of Institute founding in earlier chapters; rich bourgeois financiers funding Marxist critical theory is a recurring throughline. — connects to: Frankfurt School founders declared Marxism but abandoned hope in the working class — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 499; Frankfurt University in 1928-32 was uniquely modern, liberal, and well-equipped. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 129; Frankfurt School members espoused proletarian solidarity while maintaining bourgeois lifestyles. — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 171 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Frankfurt School members espoused proletarian solidarity while maintaining bourgeois lifestyles. #corroborates (0.75) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 171