Marx treated the bourgeois public sphere as a mirror for its own unbourgeois realization

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. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 585

Categorization

• XREF: Habermas reading Marx’s method back onto his own historical object — links to the reader’s Marxism and Form and Black Marxism holdings on Marx’s dialectic turning against his own categories. — connects to: One bourgeois phase supplied the ideal of reasoned public debate. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 584; Propertyless strata turned the bourgeoisie’s own journalism and institutions against it — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 585; The bourgeois public sphere’s defining institutions embodied a demand for their own abolition — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 585 (+6 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: One bourgeois phase supplied the ideal of reasoned public debate. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 584; Propertyless strata turned the bourgeoisie’s own journalism and institutions against it — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 585; The bourgeois public sphere’s defining institutions embodied a demand for their own abolition — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 585 (+6 more)