Each Frankfurt theorist’s doctrine shaped his verdict on direct action

Evidence

The breakthrough constituted by the tactics of diffusion and direct action had been clearly demonstrated in Berlin by Dutschke and others belonging to the Subversive Action group in 1964-5; from then on, Dutschke represented this breakthrough in the West German student movement, and it was maintained as an element that contributed decisively to the movement’s dynamics. It was welcomed by Marcuse, the theoretician of the new sensibility and an instinctual basis for socialism, and was bound to meet with a certain amount of sympathy and understanding from Adorno, the theoretician of the non-identical and the somatic impulse. But for Habermas, the theoretician of comprehensive rationalization and the liberation of inward nature through communication, it produced a fear of the irrational, a fear of expression and action that would insist on their rights, if necessary, without conceptualization or discussion. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2657

Categorization

• XREF: Crystallizes the Marcuse-Habermas-Adorno triangulation running through ch91-93. — connects to: For Horkheimer socialism depends on trained human action, not immanent historical logic — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 195; A nonessentialist, conjuncturalist Marxism enabled political analysis without predetermined outcomes

Broader Connections

• For Horkheimer socialism depends on trained human action, not immanent historical logic #expands (0.75) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 195
• A nonessentialist, conjuncturalist Marxism enabled political analysis without predetermined outcomes #corroborates (0.72)