Staunch democrats’ egalitarianism was apolitical, not socialist or power-analytic.

Evidence

However, the social-equality view of society held by those classed as staunch democrats had nothing to do with socialist convictions or a sober view of power relations. It meant instead that social differences were being seen as something external, attributed to snobbishness on the one hand and feelings of inferiority on the the other. At the same time, it was denied that academics had a right to any privileges. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 581

Categorization

• DEFINE: Specifies what ‘staunch democrat’ means operationally in this study—an apolitical egalitarianism rather than socialist commitment.
• XREF: connects to: Republican democrats treated participation as a means to, not the definition of, liberty. — Philip Pettit, Republicanism: A Theory of Freedom and…, 158; Staunch-democrat students’ egalitarianism reflected status insecurity, not socialist conviction — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2351
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Republican democrats treated participation as a means to, not the definition of, liberty. — Philip Pettit, Republicanism: A Theory of Freedom and…, 158; Staunch-democrat students’ egalitarianism reflected status insecurity, not socialist conviction — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2351