An extra-parliamentary critical public without mass roots is condemned to impotence

Evidence

The expulsion of the SDS stood. Intellectuals were the only ones to criticize the decision. If they were members of the SPD and their criticism took the form of membership of the SDS Sponsors’ Association, they were also expelled from the partyas were Abendroth and Ossip K. Flechtheim, for example. 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, 2381

Categorization

• DEFINE: Illustrates the Habermasian claim that a critical public sphere stripped of organizational roots cannot exercise power.
• XREF: Direct citation of Habermas’s Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere doctrine. — connects to: Constitutional declarations of political principles signal their impotence, not their power — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting…, 921; Organisational impotence at national level sealed defeat despite the masses enacting the idea.; Hyperpolitics collapses public and private without restoring organized movement politics.

Broader Connections

• Organisational impotence at national level sealed defeat despite the masses enacting the idea. #exemplifies (0.85)
• Constitutional declarations of political principles signal their impotence, not their power #corroborates (0.82) — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 921
• Hyperpolitics collapses public and private without restoring organized movement politics. #expands (0.78)