The Institute’s de-politicized language reflected fear, anti-Soviet sentiment, and lost faith in the proletariat.

Evidence

These changes were doubtless due in part to the sensitive situation in which the Institut’s members found themselves at Columbia. They were also a reflection of their fundamental aversion to the type of Marxism that the Institut equated with the orthodoxy of the Soviet camp. But in addition they expressed a growing loss of that basic confidence, which Marxists had traditionally felt, in the revolutionary potential of the proletariat. — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 192

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The Institute’s turn to Freud’s pessimism grew from deepening political despair. — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 363; Stalin’s purges destroyed the Soviet theoretical tradition of Marxism.; The Institute abandoned orthodox Marxist ideology critique by the forties — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 779 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• The Institute’s turn to Freud’s pessimism grew from deepening political despair. #corroborates (0.85) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 363
• The Institute abandoned orthodox Marxist ideology critique by the forties #corroborates (0.80) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 779
• Stalin’s purges destroyed the Soviet theoretical tradition of Marxism. #expands (0.75)