An age rule change enabled a generational coup in the LDH

Evidence

Something of a generational coup appears to have taken place at this point, for in 1976 half of the LDH’s Central Committee were forced out by a rule change stipulating that Central Committee members had to be aged under seventy-five. — James Renton, Ben Gidley (eds.), Antisemitism and Islamophobia in Europe, 1344 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Intragenerational change spawns multiple coexisting age fault lines — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration: A New Theory of…, 809; Older and younger activists supplied complementary governance styles during the township rising — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 608; Revolutionary committees inverted generational authority by making sons tax their own fathers (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• A 1976 age-limit rule purged half of the LDH central committee. #expands (0.95) — James Renton, Ben Gidley (eds.), Antisemitism and Islamophobia in Europe, 1344