The KPD mocked Felix Weil for never joining the Party

Evidence

Felix Weil, for example, remembers an incident in 1929 in which something he did occasioned the retort of a member of the KPD’s central committee: “What a pity, Felix, that you never joined the Party. Otherwise we could expel you now.” — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 884

Categorization

• SHARE: For anyone interested in the Institute’s relation to the KPD — the joke crystallizes the outsider-insider tension in Weil’s biographical position.
• XREF: connects to: Felix Weil financed left-wing causes without ever joining the Communist Party — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 43