The 1968 Vietnam conference marked a turn to solidarity over theoretical analysis.

Evidence

In February 1968 the SDS at Berlin’s Technical University organized an International Conference on Vietnam, followed by a demonstration. The event aimed to adopt Willi Münzenberg’s policy of using conferences to appeal to feelings of solidarity, and was intended as a departure from earlier student conferences that had involved theoretical analysis and discussion, like that with Marcuse in Frankfurt in 1966. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2640

Categorization

• XREF: Münzenberg’s conference tactic connects to Gramsci’s cultural hegemony and to later activist use of spectacle; echoes communicative-action vs instrumental action split in Habermas.