The protest movement’s core aim was repoliticizing the public sphere against technocratic depoliticization.

Evidence

As in Hanover, he observed that the immediate goal of the protest movement was the politicization of the public sphere: in returning to public discussion questions that might have immense practical consequences, and in reversing the process of depoliticization that had made technocratic pretensions possible. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 662

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines ‘politicization of the public sphere’ as returning consequential questions to public discussion and reversing depoliticization.
• XREF: Directly connects to Habermas’s concept of technocratic depoliticization and to Hall’s critique of future-oriented discourse evading participation.