 This was a personal trait that Arendt had recognized in herself, although she did not embrace the term until later.Back in Berlin, Arendt found herself becoming more involved in politics and started studying political theory, and reading Marx and Trotsky, while developing contacts at the Deutsche Hochschule für Politik.Despite the political leanings of her mother and husband she never saw herself as a political leftist, justifying her activism as being through her Jewishness.