The SDS adopted a permanent-mobilization strategy ending in worker-supported revolution

Evidence

The SDS’s analysis more and more indicated a view of itself, and an assessment of the situation, according to which the protest movement must be kept going, no matter how long, until it finally opened out into a revolution that would be borne forward by the workers as well. This indicates the ultimately crucial difference between Habermas and the most active students. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 664

Categorization

  • XREF: Echoes the Frankfurt circle’s debates over revolutionary faith versus sober social analysis. — connects to: SDS’s defining innovation was building movement structures that prefigured the desired society — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 82; The SDS sustained protest awaiting a worker-borne revolution — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2655
  • yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: SDS’s defining innovation was building movement structures that prefigured the desired society — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 82; The SDS sustained protest awaiting a worker-borne revolution — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2655

Broader Connections