Anti-subversion measures creep from illegal to legal opposition

Evidence

As in the first phase of restoration in the Federal Republic, in this second phase too the measures taken to combat unconstitutional forms of opposition were imperceptibly extended to include measures against the legal opposition as well. Conservative anti-democrats denigrated every effort at reform as a deviation from the fundamental free democratic order', and were often supported in this by liberals’ who supported a `militant democracy’ and a strong state, such as Werner Maihofer, then Minister of the Interior. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 692

Categorization

• SEED: Also a 1970s West German case study of the ‘streitbare Demokratie’ paradox, where liberal centrists materially armed the suppression of legal dissent.
• XREF: connects to: Counter-subversive legal machinery is recycled across successive enemy categories — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 557; Popular illegality formed a continuum running from tolerated evasion to outright crime — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 139; Tolerance neutralizes subversion by transforming radical ideas into fads. — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 221 (+4 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Counter-subversive legal machinery is recycled across successive enemy categories — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 557; Popular illegality formed a continuum running from tolerated evasion to outright crime — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 139; Tolerance neutralizes subversion by transforming radical ideas into fads. — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 221 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Tolerance neutralizes subversion by transforming radical ideas into fads. #complicates (0.74) — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 221
• Popular illegality formed a continuum running from tolerated evasion to outright crime #complicates (0.72) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 139