A critical public cut off from mass organizations is doomed to impotence.

Evidence

The SDS continued to existas a kind of extra-parliamentary critical public without any roots in mass organizations, and therefore condemned to impotence, according to Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 590

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the ‘extra-parliamentary critical public’ and attaches it to Habermas’s decline-of-the-public-sphere thesis.
• XREF: Connects to the reader’s earlier Habermas and public-sphere material in the Critical Theory thread. — connects to: An extra-parliamentary critical public without mass roots is condemned to impotence — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2381; Organisational impotence at national level sealed defeat despite the masses enacting the idea.; Institutionalizing a critical intellectual project can strip it of its political force.
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: An extra-parliamentary critical public without mass roots is condemned to impotence — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2381; Organisational impotence at national level sealed defeat despite the masses enacting the idea.; Institutionalizing a critical intellectual project can strip it of its political force.

Broader Connections

• An extra-parliamentary critical public without mass roots is condemned to impotence #expands (0.97) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2381
• Institutionalizing a critical intellectual project can strip it of its political force. #complicates (0.74)