Marx held that non-bourgeois strata could turn the bourgeois public sphere against its creators

Evidence

Marx had held fast to the idea of the bourgeois public sphere, to confront it as in a mirror with the social conditions for the possibility of its utterly unbourgeois realization'. The direction was given by the development which in fact took place. Its principal characteristics were that a growing proportion of non-bourgeois social strata, namely those lacking property and education, found their way into the politics of the public sphere and began to exercise an influence on its institutions, on the press, political parties and parliament, and were able to use journalism, a weapon forged by the bourgeoisie, against it. For the future, a democratic public sphere was emerging which would make the direction and administration of the reproduction of society a matter of public concern to all. A political society’ would then have socialized the means of production. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2367

Categorization

• XREF: Reinforces Habermas’s own argument in The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere that Marx read the public sphere dialectically, against itself. — connects to: Extending the public sphere made bourgeois theorists brand the people a fickle mass — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2370; Negt and Kluge oppose the bourgeois public sphere with a proletarian counter-sphere — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2758; Marx criticized bourgeois society immanently by using its own claims against it — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1435 (+2 more)
• DEFINE: Clarifies the concept of the bourgeois public sphere as a dialectical weapon that a rising non-propertied class could appropriate.

Broader Connections

• Marx criticized bourgeois society immanently by using its own claims against it #exemplifies (0.85) — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1435
• Negt and Kluge oppose the bourgeois public sphere with a proletarian counter-sphere #qualifies (0.82) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2758
• Marx’s counter-model grounded autonomy in the public sphere rather than private property #corroborates (0.75) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2369
• Marx saw market freedom and equality as real yet turning into their opposites #complicates (0.72) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 572