The SDS’s anti-science turn resulted from political failures in university reform

Evidence

Although Marcuse may have been right about the clearing of the Institute and in his fundamental views, the situation in West Germany, and most of all in Frankfurt, could not be comprehended using methods like these. A demand for the instrumentalization or even destruction of science had become dominant in the SDS, and the shifting of the potential for protest into a semi-political subculture and pseudo-political communist splinter groups was in full swing. This was a result of the extensive failure of the protest movement’s political actions and the efforts and frustrations involved in the attempt to change things in the universities directly. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2674

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Technocratic university reform triggered the 1968-69 student strikes — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2659; The SPD expelled its own critical left-wing public sphere when it banned the SDS — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2381

Broader Connections

• The SPD expelled its own critical left-wing public sphere when it banned the SDS #expands (0.85) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2381