Failed protest tactics drove activists toward anti-science demands and splinter subcultures.

Evidence

A demand for the instrumentalization or even destruction of science had become dominant in the SDS, and the shifting of the potential for protest into a semi-political subculture and pseudo-political communist splinter groups was in full swing. This was a result of the extensive failure of the protest movement’s political actions and the efforts and frustrations involved in the attempt to change things in the universities directly. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 669

Categorization

• XREF: Parallels the Institute’s own earlier thesis that blocked political action displaces energies into subcultural and pseudo-political forms. — connects to: The SDS’s anti-science turn resulted from political failures in university reform — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2674
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: The SDS’s anti-science turn resulted from political failures in university reform — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2674