Post-war re-education produced a generation politically homeless between left and right.

Evidence

On the one hand, Habermas came from a politically conformist middleclass family and was therefore sceptical towards the SPD, not to mention the communists. On the other hand, however, he was also a product of post-war `re-education’, and took its ideals so seriously that he was no less sceptical towards the right-wing partieswhich he thought had made no radical break with the disasters of the pastthan he was towards the SPD. Initially, he could not see any political force with which he would be able to identify himself. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 566

Categorization

• SEED: An essay angle on how occupying powers’ re-education programs manufactured a critical, unaffiliated intelligentsia rather than compliant democrats.
• XREF: connects to: Each postwar generation erases the political memory of the one before it. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 181; Postwar German re-education shaped Habermas’s political disillusionment — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2292; The 1956 New Left emerged from a third-position third-world student milieu — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2: Identity…, 930 (+3 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Each postwar generation erases the political memory of the one before it. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 181; Postwar German re-education shaped Habermas’s political disillusionment — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2292; The 1956 New Left emerged from a third-position third-world student milieu — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2: Identity…, 930 (+3 more)