The SDS sustained protest awaiting a worker-borne revolution

Evidence

But no matter how debatable it was whether Habermas was accurate or not in his description of the convictions that determined the activities of the most active students; no matter whether the strategies they were using were really the consequences of such convictions; and no matter whether the conditions necessary for a revolutionary situation that he mentioned were too narrow or nothe was right in asserting that the SDS saw its scope for action as lying in a situation that needed to be revolutionized. 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. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2655

Categorization

• XREF: Resonates with ch92-93 on students’ revolutionary self-understanding. — connects to: Postwar labor unrest aimed at revolution, not just wages. — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order: How Economists…, 375; Street protest evacuates rather than supplants the organized workplace struggle the left once waged — Arthur Borriello and Anton Jäger, The Populist Moment: The Left After the…, 156

Broader Connections

• Postwar labor unrest aimed at revolution, not just wages. #corroborates (0.82) — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 375