The 1968 student movement regarded the Frankfurt School elders as traitors to the revolution

Evidence

Such sentiments turned out to be all too common in the Frankfurt where I settled in early February. A number of university buildings were occupied in an on-going “active strike” that led to improvised courses in Marxist theory and practice. The Sociology Department had been rebaptized “the Spartacus Department” after the militants of the early Weimar years. On January 31st, the Institut fur Sozialforschung itself had been taken over by radical students-or so thought its anxious directors, Adorno and Ludwig von Friedeburg, who had called the police to clear the building. Although it turned out to be just an embarrassing misunderstanding (the students were only looking for a place to hold a discussion), the gulf between the current leadership of the Frankfurt School and their unwanted progeny widened still further. — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 6

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s knowledge of generational rupture in critical theory — the student radicals saw Adorno’s turn from revolutionary theory as betrayal, exactly the tension documented in later scholarship on the Frankfurt School’s depoliticization. — connects to: Post-1968 West Germany entered a reform era partly caused by the protest movement itself — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2676; The 1960s student movement alienated the aging Frankfurt School leadership — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 6; Sixties radicals regarded Adorno and Horkheimer as sell-outs who betrayed revolution — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 5