Habermas derived his condemnation of student violence from orthodox Marxist revolutionary preconditions

Evidence

It was also amazing that Habermas was taking orthodox Marxist views of the conditions necessary for revolution, summing these up as consisting of open rebellion by the exploited masses on whose co-operation the social system dependedand then using the fact that these conditions had not been met to conclude that a revolutionary situation had not arisen, and therefore that all actions were inadmissible that were intended as a violent means of capturing positions of power, rather than merely using symbolic blackmail to draw attention forcibly to their arguments. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 664

Categorization

• QUESTION: Is Habermas really operating with a Leninist doctrine of revolutionary conditions here, or is this Wiggershaus’s polemical gloss?
• XREF: Connects to Marcuse’s distinction between symbolic and violent opposition, and to the earlier Frankfurt debates on the praxis-demanding core of theory. — connects to: Habermas condemned student protest tactics as ritualized blackmail and delusional — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2653; Habermas saw the student path as a tightrope between apathy and revolutionary oversimplification — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2615; Habermas credited the student opposition with opening a new path to radical structural change. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 662 (+3 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Habermas condemned student protest tactics as ritualized blackmail and delusional — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2653; Habermas saw the student path as a tightrope between apathy and revolutionary oversimplification — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2615; Habermas credited the student opposition with opening a new path to radical structural change. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 662 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Habermas conceived revolution as gradual repoliticization of a dried-up public sphere #complicates (0.80) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2656
• Habermas credited the student opposition with opening a new path to radical structural change. #complicates (0.76) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 662
• Revolutionary violence must be contextualized rather than used to dismiss its ideals #complicates (0.75)