The SPD executive retroactively expelled the SDS without stating any grounds.

Evidence

Page 562 SPD’s party executive declared: `Membership of the society “Association of Socialist Sponsors of the Friends, Sponsors and Former Members of the SDS” is incompatible with membership of the Social Democratic Party of Germany, just as it is incompatible for anyone to be both a member of the SDS and a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany.’ It was a strange declaration, which officially expelled the SDS by behaving as if others had already implemented a decision that membership of the SPD and membership of the SDS were incompatible, and as if incompatibility between membership of the SPD and membership of the Sponsors’ Association was merely a consequence of that. The party executive gave no reason for its decision. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 590

Categorization

• XREF: Institutional counterpart to Habermas’s account of a critical public sphere being squeezed out of mass organizations. — connects to: The SPD expelled the SDS out of irritation, not ideological incompatibility. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 590; The SPD expelled the SDS over atomic weapons, Nazi-lawyer exposures, and Godesberg criticism. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2381; The SPD expelled its own critical left-wing public sphere when it banned the SDS — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2381 (+1 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: The SPD expelled the SDS out of irritation, not ideological incompatibility. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 590; The SPD expelled the SDS over atomic weapons, Nazi-lawyer exposures, and Godesberg criticism. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2381; The SPD expelled its own critical left-wing public sphere when it banned the SDS — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2381 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• The SPD expelled the SDS out of irritation, not ideological incompatibility. #complicates (0.75) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 590