The Geraberg meeting presaged the rupture between socialist intellectuals and the Communist Party.

Evidence

The meeting of intellectuals at Geraberg did not take place within a Communist Party framework, but merely on the fringes of the communist movement. It already heralded the difficulties which were to follow for relations between socialist intellectuals and organized communists, when mere preparation for revolution became a lasting state of affairs, and a party of professional revolutionaries started to mistrust both the masses it was supposed to represent and also self-critical members of the opposing camp. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 50

Categorization

• XREF: Prefigures the Frankfurt School’s eventual split from orthodox communism and the party’s suspicion of intellectual allies. — connects to: The Geraberg 1922 meeting was the Institute of Social Research’s first theory seminar — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 51; The Geraberg meeting prefigured the split between socialist intellectuals and organized communists; The 1923 Geraberg Marxist Study Week gathered young communist intellectuals around Korsch and Lukacs

Broader Connections

• The Geraberg 1922 meeting was the Institute of Social Research’s first theory seminar #expands (0.95) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 51