This is not wrong at all. Compared to other professions, university-employed academics did well. How is it controversial that it is easier for someone who is

This is not wrong at all. Compared to other professions, university-employed academics did well. How is it controversial that it is easier for someone who is directly employed by the state to be a socialist? You mention Marxist discourse in West Germany. It was easy for Adorno to be a socialist, because all he could do was talk in a convoluted, content-free manner. Celibidache (who actually did something), called him the biggest windbag of the 20th century.