The exiled Institute refused organized political activity and émigré support work

Evidence

The constant policy of the Institute under Horkheimer’s direction continued to be abstinence, not only from every activity which was even remotely political, but also from any collective or organized effort to publicize the situation in Germany or to support émigrés. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 152

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: A research institute fleeing Nazism systematically declined to publicize or combat Nazism — a paradox of intellectual commitment worth sitting with, and the seed of every later charge that Critical Theory bought survival with reticence.
• XREF: connects to: Horkheimer forbade the Institute from any political or émigré-support activity — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 539

Broader Connections

• Horkheimer forbade the Institute from any political or émigré-support activity #expands (0.95) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 539