Propertyless strata turned the bourgeoisie’s own journalism and institutions against it
Evidence
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. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 585
Categorization
- SEED: Essay angle: journalism as a weapon the bourgeoisie forged and then had turned on it — the recurring historical pattern of media tools escaping their class origins.
- XREF: Echoes the reader’s Communication as Culture material on how communication technology reshapes who can enter the public sphere. — connects to: The bourgeois public sphere’s defining institutions embodied a demand for their own abolition — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 585; Bourgeois institutions objectively embodied the idea of their own abolition — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2365; Marx held that non-bourgeois strata could turn the bourgeois public sphere against its creators — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2367 (+1 more)
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: The bourgeois public sphere’s defining institutions embodied a demand for their own abolition — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 585; Bourgeois institutions objectively embodied the idea of their own abolition — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2365; Marx held that non-bourgeois strata could turn the bourgeois public sphere against its creators — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2367 (+1 more)