Revolt in a non-revolutionary period is precarious and self-endangering.

Evidence

It was a close partner for him in its critique of the exclusion of practical questions from a public sphere that had become depoliticized, yet at the same time it was so threatened and so dangerous as it walked the precarious tightrope of revolt in a non-revolutionary period. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 663

Categorization

• DEFINE: Habermas’s notion that protest is a partner in critiquing a depoliticized public sphere even while being strategically doomed — worth flagging as a recurring tension in his position.
• XREF: connects to: A spontaneous uprising can surprise the ruling class only once before it fails — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 98; People may revolt whenever they judge oppression grave enough to warrant it. — , Second-Treatise-of-Government-1645716289, 3337; Premature uprisings limited the revolt’s potential final success (+8 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: A spontaneous uprising can surprise the ruling class only once before it fails — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 98; People may revolt whenever they judge oppression grave enough to warrant it. — , Second-Treatise-of-Government-1645716289, 3337; Premature uprisings limited the revolt’s potential final success (+8 more)