Habermas credited the student opposition with opening a new path to radical structural change.

Evidence

After a year of experience with a nationwide protest movement, and a semester as a visiting professor in the USA during the winter of 1967-8, Habermas confirmed that the student opposition had opened up a serious new perspective on how to achieve radical change in deep-seated social structures. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 662

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Habermas’s later legitimation-crisis and public-sphere work, which shares this same thesis that opening public discussion is the engine of change.