The Institute’s early Marxist character legitimated socialist topics as scholarly subjects

Evidence

Even though it is not specially mentioned in the name or in the charter of the Institute, the negotiations over its foundation, the published inaugural address by Professor Grünberg, our other publications, and the research and teaching activities of the Institute are all evidence of the fact that there is no question of it being merely an institution devoted to economics or sociology in general. … At the opening ceremony for the Institute on 22 June 1924 in the University Hall in the presence of the representative of the Minister of Science, Art and Education and of the Senior President, and in the presence in person of the Mayor and other leaders of the state and district authorities, I myself, and Professor Grünberg in particular in his speech, publicly and programmatically laid down the Marxist character of the Institute. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 134 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

The 1918 November Revolution had only just begun in Germany when Robert Wilbrandt travelled to Berlin. Wilbrandt was forty-three, and had been Professor of Political Economy in Tübingen since 1908. One of the few German socialist academics, he was frowned upon by his university colleagues as an extreme leftist. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 26 (#qualifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The Institute publicly declared its Marxist character at its founding ceremony — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 134; Socialist academics were rare and stigmatized in German universities — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 26

Broader Connections

• The Institute publicly declared its Marxist character at its founding ceremony #corroborates (0.92) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 134
• Socialist academics were rare and stigmatized in German universities #qualifies (0.75) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 26